On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:53 PM Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > cache_alloc_debugcheck_after() performs checks on an object, including > adjusting the returned pointer. None of this should apply to KFENCE > objects. While for non-bulk allocations, the checks are skipped when we > allocate via KFENCE, for bulk allocations cache_alloc_debugcheck_after() > is called via cache_alloc_debugcheck_after_bulk(). @Andrew, is this code used by anyone? As far as I understand, it cannot be enabled by any config option, so nobody really tests it. If it is still needed, shall we promote #if DEBUGs in slab.c to a separate config option, or maybe this code can be safely removed? Alex
