[PATCH 1/6] arm64: mm: remove unreachable invalid range check in kasan_init_shadow()

Andrey Ryabinin ryabinin.a.a at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 09:52:14 PDT 2026


Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098 at gmail.com> writes:

> 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(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a at gmail.com>

> 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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