diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig b/arch/um/Kconfig
index 0917f8443c28..2b76dc273731 100644
--- a/arch/um/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/um/Kconfig
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ config UML
 	select ARCH_HAS_KCOV
 	select ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
 	select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
+	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if X86_64
 	select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
 	select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
 	select HAVE_UID16
@@ -200,6 +201,15 @@ config UML_TIME_TRAVEL_SUPPORT
 
 	  It is safe to say Y, but you probably don't need this.
 
+config KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
+	hex
+	depends on KASAN
+	default 0x100000000000
+	help
+	  This is the offset at which the ~2.25TB of shadow memory is
+	  initialized and used by KASAN for memory debugging. The default
+	  is 0x100000000000.
+
 endmenu
 
 source "arch/um/drivers/Kconfig"
diff --git a/arch/um/Makefile b/arch/um/Makefile
index d2daa206872d..28fe7a9a1858 100644
--- a/arch/um/Makefile
+++ b/arch/um/Makefile
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ USER_CFLAGS = $(patsubst $(KERNEL_DEFINES),,$(patsubst -I%,,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS))) \
 		-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -idirafter $(srctree)/include \
 		-idirafter $(objtree)/include -D__KERNEL__ -D__UM_HOST__
 
+# Kernel config options are not included in USER_CFLAGS, but the option for KASAN
+# should be included if the KASAN config option was set.
+ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
+	USER_CFLAGS+=-DCONFIG_KASAN=y
+endif
+
 #This will adjust *FLAGS accordingly to the platform.
 include $(ARCH_DIR)/Makefile-os-$(OS)
 
diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/dma.h b/arch/um/include/asm/dma.h
index fdc53642c718..8aafd60d62bb 100644
--- a/arch/um/include/asm/dma.h
+++ b/arch/um/include/asm/dma.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <asm/io.h>
 
 extern unsigned long uml_physmem;
+extern unsigned long long physmem_size;
 
 #define MAX_DMA_ADDRESS (uml_physmem)
 
diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/kasan.h b/arch/um/include/asm/kasan.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba08061068cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/um/include/asm/kasan.h
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef __ASM_UM_KASAN_H
+#define __ASM_UM_KASAN_H
+
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/const.h>
+
+#define KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET _AC(CONFIG_KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET, UL)
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+#define KASAN_SHADOW_SIZE 0x100000000000UL
+#else
+#error "KASAN_SHADOW_SIZE is not defined for this sub-architecture"
+#endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
+
+// used in kasan_mem_to_shadow to divide by 8
+#define KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT 3
+
+#define KASAN_SHADOW_START (KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET)
+#define KASAN_SHADOW_END (KASAN_SHADOW_START + KASAN_SHADOW_SIZE)
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
+void kasan_init(void);
+#else
+static inline void kasan_init(void) { }
+#endif /* CONFIG_KASAN */
+
+void kasan_map_memory(void *start, unsigned long len);
+void kasan_unpoison_shadow(const void *address, size_t size);
+
+#endif /* __ASM_UM_KASAN_H */
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/Makefile b/arch/um/kernel/Makefile
index 5aa882011e04..875e1827588b 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/Makefile
@@ -8,6 +8,28 @@
 # kernel.
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT                := n
 
+# The way UMl deals with the stack causes seemingly false positive KASAN
+# reports such as:
+# BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in show_stack+0x15e/0x1fb
+# Read of size 8 at addr 000000006184bbb0 by task swapper/1
+# ==================================================================
+# BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in dump_trace+0x141/0x1c5
+# Read of size 8 at addr 0000000071057eb8 by task swapper/1
+# ==================================================================
+# BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in get_wchan+0xd7/0x138
+# Read of size 8 at addr 0000000070e8fc80 by task systemd/1
+#
+# With these files removed from instrumentation, those reports are
+# eliminated, but KASAN still repeatedly reports a bug on syscall_stub_data:
+# ==================================================================
+# BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in syscall_stub_data+0x299/0x2bf
+# Read of size 128 at addr 0000000071457c50 by task swapper/1
+
+KASAN_SANITIZE_stacktrace.o := n
+KASAN_SANITIZE_sysrq.o := n
+KASAN_SANITIZE_process.o := n
+
+
 CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds := -DSTART=$(LDS_START)		\
                         -DELF_ARCH=$(LDS_ELF_ARCH)	\
                         -DELF_FORMAT=$(LDS_ELF_FORMAT)	\
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/mem.c b/arch/um/kernel/mem.c
index 32fc941c80f7..7b7b8a0ee724 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/mem.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/mem.c
@@ -18,21 +18,20 @@
 #include <kern_util.h>
 #include <mem_user.h>
 #include <os.h>
+#include <linux/sched/task.h>
 
-extern int printf(const char *msg, ...);
-static void early_print(void)
+#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
+void kasan_init(void)
 {
-	printf("I'm super early, before constructors\n");
+	kasan_map_memory((void *)KASAN_SHADOW_START, KASAN_SHADOW_SIZE);
+	init_task.kasan_depth = 0;
+	os_info("KernelAddressSanitizer initialized\n");
 }
 
-static void __attribute__((constructor)) constructor_test(void)
-{
-	printf("yes, you can see it\n");
-}
-
-static void (*early_print_ptr)(void)
+static void (*kasan_init_ptr)(void)
 __attribute__((section(".kasan_init"), used))
- = early_print;
+= kasan_init;
+#endif
 
 /* allocated in paging_init, zeroed in mem_init, and unchanged thereafter */
 unsigned long *empty_zero_page = NULL;
diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c
index 3c1b77474d2d..da7039721d35 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c
@@ -17,6 +17,25 @@
 #include <init.h>
 #include <os.h>
 
+/**
+ * kasan_map_memory() - maps memory from @start with a size of @len.
+ * The allocated memory is filled with zeroes upon success.
+ * @start: the start address of the memory to be mapped
+ * @len: the length of the memory to be mapped
+ *
+ * This function is used to map shadow memory for KASAN in uml
+ */
+void kasan_map_memory(void *start, size_t len)
+{
+	if (mmap(start,
+		 len,
+		 PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
+		 MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_NORESERVE,
+		 -1,
+		 0) == MAP_FAILED)
+		os_info("Couldn't allocate shadow memory %s", strerror(errno));
+}
+
 /* Set by make_tempfile() during early boot. */
 static char *tempdir = NULL;
 
diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/user_syms.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/user_syms.c
index 715594fe5719..cb667c9225ab 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/user_syms.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/user_syms.c
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strstr);
 #ifndef __x86_64__
 extern void *memcpy(void *, const void *, size_t);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcpy);
-#endif
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memmove);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset);
+#endif
+
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(printf);
 
 /* Here, instead, I can provide a fake prototype. Yes, someone cares: genksyms.
diff --git a/arch/x86/um/Makefile b/arch/x86/um/Makefile
index 33c51c064c77..7dbd76c546fe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/um/Makefile
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ else
 
 obj-y += syscalls_64.o vdso/
 
-subarch-y = ../lib/csum-partial_64.o ../lib/memcpy_64.o ../entry/thunk_64.o
+subarch-y = ../lib/csum-partial_64.o ../lib/memcpy_64.o ../entry/thunk_64.o \
+	../lib/memmove_64.o ../lib/memset_64.o
 
 endif
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile
index 0caddd6acb22..450efa0fb694 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 # Building vDSO images for x86.
 #
 
+# do not instrument on vdso because KASAN is not compatible with user mode
+KASAN_SANITIZE			:= n
+
 # Prevents link failures: __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() is not linked in.
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT                := n
 
