]> Git Repo - linux.git/commit
kasan: remove PG_skip_kasan_poison flag
authorPeter Collingbourne <[email protected]>
Fri, 10 Mar 2023 04:29:14 +0000 (20:29 -0800)
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>
Tue, 28 Mar 2023 23:20:16 +0000 (16:20 -0700)
commit0a54864f8dfb64b64c84c9db6ff70e0e93690a33
tree00de1c53f4138a72acfca6559c7e66cc3ae54e3b
parent7eb16f23b9a415f062db22739e59bb144e0b24ab
kasan: remove PG_skip_kasan_poison flag

Code inspection reveals that PG_skip_kasan_poison is redundant with
kasantag, because the former is intended to be set iff the latter is the
match-all tag.  It can also be observed that it's basically pointless to
poison pages which have kasantag=0, because any pages with this tag would
have been pointed to by pointers with match-all tags, so poisoning the
pages would have little to no effect in terms of bug detection.
Therefore, change the condition in should_skip_kasan_poison() to check
kasantag instead, and remove PG_skip_kasan_poison and associated flags.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I57f825f2eaeaf7e8389d6cf4597c8a5821359838
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
include/linux/gfp_types.h
include/linux/page-flags.h
include/trace/events/mmflags.h
mm/kasan/hw_tags.c
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/vmalloc.c
This page took 0.06651 seconds and 4 git commands to generate.