linux-kernel - [PATCH] kasan-improve-double-free-reports-fix

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Date:	Tue, 2 Aug 2016 19:00:54 +0300
From:	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	<kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kasan-improve-double-free-reports-fix

Change doulbe free message per Alexander

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
---
 mm/kasan/report.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index ee2bdb4..24c1211 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	kasan_start_report(&flags);
-	pr_err("BUG: Double free or corrupt pointer\n");
+	pr_err("BUG: Double free or freeing an invalid pointer\n");
 	pr_err("Unexpected shadow byte: 0x%hhX\n", shadow);
 	kasan_object_err(cache, object);
 	kasan_end_report(&flags);
-- 
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