linux-kernel - [PATCH v6 18/39] kasan, vmalloc: drop outdated VM

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Date:   Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:04:52 +0100
From:   andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 18/39] kasan, vmalloc: drop outdated VM_KASAN comment

From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>

The comment about VM_KASAN in include/linux/vmalloc.c is outdated.
VM_KASAN is currently only used to mark vm_areas allocated for
kernel modules when CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC is disabled.

Drop the comment.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
---
 include/linux/vmalloc.h | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 880227b9f044..87f8cfec50a0 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -35,17 +35,6 @@ struct notifier_block;		/* in notifier.h */
 #define VM_DEFER_KMEMLEAK	0
 #endif
 
-/*
- * VM_KASAN is used slightly differently depending on CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC.
- *
- * If IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC), VM_KASAN is set on a vm_struct after
- * shadow memory has been mapped. It's used to handle allocation errors so that
- * we don't try to poison shadow on free if it was never allocated.
- *
- * Otherwise, VM_KASAN is set for kasan_module_alloc() allocations and used to
- * determine which allocations need the module shadow freed.
- */
-
 /* bits [20..32] reserved for arch specific ioremap internals */
 
 /*
-- 
2.25.1