[PATCH v2 18/34] kasan, vmalloc: drop outdated VM_KASAN comment
andrey.konovalov at linux.dev
andrey.konovalov at linux.dev
Mon Dec 6 13:43:55 PST 2021
From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at 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The comment about VM_KASAN in include/linux/vmalloc.c is outdated.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 at google.com>
---
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 */
/*
--
2.25.1
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