The patch titled Subject: kasan, vmalloc: drop outdated VM_KASAN comment has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kasan-vmalloc-drop-outdated-vm_kasan-comment.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kasan-vmalloc-drop-outdated-vm_kasan-comment.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kasan-vmalloc-drop-outdated-vm_kasan-comment.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kasan, vmalloc: drop outdated VM_KASAN comment The comment about VM_KASAN in include/linux/vmalloc.c is outdated.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. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/780395afea83a147b3b5acc36cf2e38f7f8479f9.1643047180.git.andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/vmalloc.h | 11 ----------- 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h~kasan-vmalloc-drop-outdated-vm_kasan-comment +++ a/include/linux/vmalloc.h @@ -35,17 +35,6 @@ struct notifier_block; /* in notifier.h #define VM_DEFER_KMEMLEAK 0 #endif -/* - * VM_KASAN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 */ /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx are kasan-page_alloc-deduplicate-should_skip_kasan_poison.patch kasan-page_alloc-move-tag_clear_highpage-out-of-kernel_init_free_pages.patch kasan-page_alloc-merge-kasan_free_pages-into-free_pages_prepare.patch kasan-page_alloc-simplify-kasan_poison_pages-call-site.patch kasan-page_alloc-init-memory-of-skipped-pages-on-free.patch kasan-drop-skip_kasan_poison-variable-in-free_pages_prepare.patch mm-clarify-__gfp_zerotags-comment.patch kasan-only-apply-__gfp_zerotags-when-memory-is-zeroed.patch kasan-page_alloc-refactor-init-checks-in-post_alloc_hook.patch kasan-page_alloc-merge-kasan_alloc_pages-into-post_alloc_hook.patch kasan-page_alloc-combine-tag_clear_highpage-calls-in-post_alloc_hook.patch kasan-page_alloc-move-setpageskipkasanpoison-in-post_alloc_hook.patch kasan-page_alloc-move-kernel_init_free_pages-in-post_alloc_hook.patch kasan-page_alloc-rework-kasan_unpoison_pages-call-site.patch kasan-clean-up-metadata-byte-definitions.patch kasan-define-kasan_vmalloc_invalid-for-sw_tags.patch kasan-x86-arm64-s390-rename-functions-for-modules-shadow.patch kasan-vmalloc-drop-outdated-vm_kasan-comment.patch kasan-reorder-vmalloc-hooks.patch kasan-add-wrappers-for-vmalloc-hooks.patch kasan-vmalloc-reset-tags-in-vmalloc-functions.patch kasan-fork-reset-pointer-tags-of-vmapped-stacks.patch kasan-arm64-reset-pointer-tags-of-vmapped-stacks.patch kasan-vmalloc-add-vmalloc-tagging-for-sw_tags.patch kasan-vmalloc-arm64-mark-vmalloc-mappings-as-pgprot_tagged.patch kasan-vmalloc-unpoison-vm_alloc-pages-after-mapping.patch kasan-mm-only-define-___gfp_skip_kasan_poison-with-hw_tags.patch kasan-page_alloc-allow-skipping-unpoisoning-for-hw_tags.patch kasan-page_alloc-allow-skipping-memory-init-for-hw_tags.patch kasan-vmalloc-add-vmalloc-tagging-for-hw_tags.patch kasan-vmalloc-only-tag-normal-vmalloc-allocations.patch kasan-arm64-dont-tag-executable-vmalloc-allocations.patch kasan-mark-kasan_arg_stacktrace-as-__initdata.patch kasan-clean-up-feature-flags-for-hw_tags-mode.patch kasan-add-kasanvmalloc-command-line-flag.patch kasan-allow-enabling-kasan_vmalloc-and-sw-hw_tags.patch arm64-select-kasan_vmalloc-for-sw-hw_tags-modes.patch kasan-documentation-updates.patch kasan-improve-vmalloc-tests.patch