[PATCH 1/6] arm64: mm: remove unreachable invalid range check in kasan_init_shadow()
Sang-Heon Jeon
ekffu200098 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 21 07:59:11 PDT 2026
kasan_init_shadow() maps each memblock region with for_each_mem_range()
and breaks the loop when start >= end. for_each_mem_range() never returns
an invalid range, so start < end always.
Therefore the start >= end check is unreachable, so remove it.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098 at gmail.com>
---
arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
index 3fcad956fdf7..45fbdce684c8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
@@ -353,9 +353,6 @@ static void __init kasan_init_shadow(void)
void *start = (void *)__phys_to_virt(pa_start);
void *end = (void *)__phys_to_virt(pa_end);
- if (start >= end)
- break;
-
kasan_map_populate((unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(start),
(unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(end),
early_pfn_to_nid(virt_to_pfn(start)));
--
2.43.0
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