linux-kernel - [PATCH 17/20] kasan: clarify comment in __kasan_kfree

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Date:   Thu,  5 Nov 2020 01:02:27 +0100
From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc:     Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@....com>,
        Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 17/20] kasan: clarify comment in __kasan_kfree_large

Currently it says that the memory gets poisoned by page_alloc code.
Clarify this by mentioning the specific callback that poisons the
memory.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I1334dffb69b87d7986fab88a1a039cc3ea764725
---
 mm/kasan/common.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/common.c b/mm/kasan/common.c
index 40ff3ce07a76..4360292ad7f3 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/common.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/common.c
@@ -436,5 +436,5 @@ void __kasan_kfree_large(void *ptr, unsigned long ip)
 {
 	if (ptr != page_address(virt_to_head_page(ptr)))
 		kasan_report_invalid_free(ptr, ip);
-	/* The object will be poisoned by page_alloc. */
+	/* The object will be poisoned by kasan_free_pages(). */
 }
-- 
2.29.1.341.ge80a0c044ae-goog