[PATCH v3 1/8] arm64: mm: remove unreachable invalid range check in kasan_init_shadow()

Sang-Heon Jeon ekffu200098 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 08:04:06 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>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a 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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