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[17/31] kasan, vmalloc: drop outdated VM_KASAN comment

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Headers	show Return-Path: <owner-linux-mm@kvack.org> From: andrey.konovalov@linux.dev To: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>, Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>, Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>, Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Subject: [PATCH 17/31] kasan, vmalloc: drop outdated VM_KASAN comment Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:06:56 +0100 Message-Id: <a7214f1376700b74d98c66c2fc1792be7c54f3cb.1638308023.git.andreyknvl@google.com> In-Reply-To: <cover.1638308023.git.andreyknvl@google.com> References: <cover.1638308023.git.andreyknvl@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk
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andrey.konovalov@linux.dev Nov. 30, 2021, 10:06 p.m. UTC

From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>

The comment about VM_KASAN in include/linux/vmalloc.c is outdated.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 <andreyknvl@google.com>
---
 include/linux/vmalloc.h | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

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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 */
 
 /*