The patch titled
Subject: kasan: update kasan_poison documentation comment
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
kasan-update-kasan_poison-documentation-comment.patch
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/kasan-update-kasan_poison-documentation-comment.patch
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: kasan: update kasan_poison documentation comment
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:04:47 +0100
The comment for kasan_poison says that the size argument gets aligned by
the function to KASAN_GRANULE_SIZE, which is wrong: the argument must be
already aligned when it is passed to the function.
Remove the invalid part of the comment.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/992a302542059fc40d86ea560eac413ecb31b6a1.1703188911.git.andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/kasan/kasan.h | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.h~kasan-update-kasan_poison-documentation-comment
+++ a/mm/kasan/kasan.h
@@ -513,8 +513,6 @@ static inline bool kasan_byte_accessible
* @size - range size, must be aligned to KASAN_GRANULE_SIZE
* @value - value that's written to metadata for the range
* @init - whether to initialize the memory range (only for hardware tag-based)
- *
- * The size gets aligned to KASAN_GRANULE_SIZE before marking the range.
*/
void kasan_poison(const void *addr, size_t size, u8 value, bool init);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx are
kasan-rename-kasan_slab_free_mempool-to-kasan_mempool_poison_object.patch
kasan-move-kasan_mempool_poison_object.patch
kasan-document-kasan_mempool_poison_object.patch
kasan-add-return-value-for-kasan_mempool_poison_object.patch
kasan-introduce-kasan_mempool_unpoison_object.patch
kasan-introduce-kasan_mempool_poison_pages.patch
kasan-introduce-kasan_mempool_unpoison_pages.patch
kasan-clean-up-__kasan_mempool_poison_object.patch
kasan-save-free-stack-traces-for-slab-mempools.patch
kasan-clean-up-and-rename-____kasan_kmalloc.patch
kasan-introduce-poison_kmalloc_large_redzone.patch
kasan-save-alloc-stack-traces-for-mempool.patch
mempool-skip-slub_debug-poisoning-when-kasan-is-enabled.patch
mempool-use-new-mempool-kasan-hooks.patch
mempool-introduce-mempool_use_prealloc_only.patch
kasan-add-mempool-tests.patch
kasan-rename-pagealloc-tests.patch
kasan-reorder-tests.patch
kasan-rename-and-document-kasan_unpoison_object_data.patch
skbuff-use-mempool-kasan-hooks.patch
io_uring-use-mempool-kasan-hook.patch
lib-stackdepot-add-printk_deferred_enter-exit-guards.patch
kasan-handle-concurrent-kasan_record_aux_stack-calls.patch
kasan-memset-free-track-in-qlink_free.patch
lib-stackdepot-fix-comment-in-include-linux-stackdepoth.patch
kasan-arm64-improve-comments-for-kasan_shadow_start-end.patch
mm-kasan-use-kasan_tag_kernel-instead-of-0xff.patch
kasan-improve-kasan_non_canonical_hook.patch
kasan-clean-up-kasan_requires_meta.patch
kasan-update-kasan_poison-documentation-comment.patch
kasan-clean-up-is_kfence_address-checks.patch
kasan-respect-config_kasan_vmalloc-for-kasan_flag_vmalloc.patch
kasan-check-kasan_vmalloc_enabled-in-vmalloc-tests.patch
kasan-export-kasan_poison-as-gpl.patch
kasan-remove-slub-checks-for-page_alloc-fallbacks-in-tests.patch
kasan-speed-up-match_all_mem_tag-test-for-sw_tags.patch
