[PATCH 17/31] kasan, vmalloc: drop outdated VM_KASAN comment
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Date: 2021-11-30 22:07:04
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Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, Uladzislau Rezki
From: Andrey Konovalov <redacted> The comment about VM_KASAN in include/linux/vmalloc.c is outdated. VM_KASAN is currently only used to mark vm_areas allocated for kernel modules when CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC is disabled. Drop the comment. Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <redacted> --- include/linux/vmalloc.h | 11 ----------- 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 6e022cc712e6..b22369f540eb 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h@@ -28,17 +28,6 @@ struct notifier_block; /* in notifier.h */ #define VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES 0x00000200 /* put pages and free array in vfree */ #define VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP 0x00000400 /* force PAGE_SIZE pte mapping */ -/* - * VM_KASAN is used slightly differently depending on CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC. - * - * If IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC), VM_KASAN is set on a vm_struct after - * shadow memory has been mapped. It's used to handle allocation errors so that - * we don't try to poison shadow on free if it was never allocated. - * - * Otherwise, VM_KASAN is set for kasan_module_alloc() allocations and used to - * determine which allocations need the module shadow freed. - */ - /* bits [20..32] reserved for arch specific ioremap internals */ /*
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2.25.1
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