kasan: remove mentions of unsupported Clang versions

Since the kernel now requires at least Clang 10.0.1, remove any mention of
old Clang versions and simplify the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902225911.209899-7-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst

@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation to insert validity checks before every
 memory access, and therefore requires a compiler version that supports that.
 
 Generic KASAN is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version
-8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or later, but detection of
+8.3.0 or later. Any supported Clang version is compatible, but detection of
 out-of-bounds accesses for global variables is only supported since Clang 11.
 
-Tag-based KASAN is only supported in Clang and requires version 7.0.0 or later.
+Tag-based KASAN is only supported in Clang.
 
 Currently generic KASAN is supported for the x86_64, arm64, xtensa, s390 and
 riscv architectures, and tag-based KASAN is supported only for arm64.

lib/Kconfig.kasan

@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ config KASAN_GENERIC
 	  Enables generic KASAN mode.
 
 	  This mode is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires
-	  version 8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or
+	  version 8.3.0 or later. Any supported Clang version is compatible,
-	  later, but detection of out-of-bounds accesses for global variables
+	  but detection of out-of-bounds accesses for global variables is
-	  is supported only since Clang 11.
+	  supported only since Clang 11.
 
 	  This mode consumes about 1/8th of available memory at kernel start
 	  and introduces an overhead of ~x1.5 for the rest of the allocations.
@@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ config KASAN_SW_TAGS
 	  Enables software tag-based KASAN mode.
 
 	  This mode requires Top Byte Ignore support by the CPU and therefore
-	  is only supported for arm64. This mode requires Clang version 7.0.0
+	  is only supported for arm64. This mode requires Clang.
-	  or later.
 
 	  This mode consumes about 1/16th of available memory at kernel start
 	  and introduces an overhead of ~20% for the rest of the allocations.