linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mm 3/4] kasan: simplify saving extra info into tracks

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Message-ID: <CA+fCnZf1TDEu9JwT2my7-p9XKrHjyWyjpXiGJ2y6SV9mxcCZvA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:21:25 +0100
From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
To: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc: andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Juntong Deng <juntong.deng@...look.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, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm 3/4] kasan: simplify saving extra info into tracks

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 9:12 PM Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 at 19:35, <andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev> wrote:
> >
> > From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> >
> > Avoid duplicating code for saving extra info into tracks: reuse the
> > common function for this.
> >
> > Fixes: 5d4c6ac94694 ("kasan: record and report more information")
>
> Looking at this patch and the previous ones, is this Fixes really
> needed? I.e. was the previous patch broken?

Yeah, maybe it's not needed in these 3 patches. The original patch
works, these are just clean-ups.