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Message-ID: <CAD-N9QWdqPaZSh=Xi_CWcKyNmxCS0WOteAtRvwHLZf16fab3eQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:10:35 +0800
From: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@...il.com>
To: Haoyang Liu <tttturtleruss@...t.edu.cn>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
hust-os-kernel-patches@...glegroups.com, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/dev-tools: fix a typo
On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 10:09 PM Haoyang Liu <tttturtleruss@...t.edu.cn> wrote:
>
> fix a typo in dev-tools/kmsan.rst
>
> Signed-off-by: Haoyang Liu <tttturtleruss@...t.edu.cn>
> ---
> Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst
> index 6a48d96c5c85..0dc668b183f6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst
> @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ KMSAN shadow memory
> -------------------
>
> KMSAN associates a metadata byte (also called shadow byte) with every byte of
> -kernel memory. A bit in the shadow byte is set iff the corresponding bit of the
> +kernel memory. A bit in the shadow byte is set if the corresponding bit of the
This is not a typo. iff is if and only if
Dongliang Mu
> kernel memory byte is uninitialized. Marking the memory uninitialized (i.e.
> setting its shadow bytes to ``0xff``) is called poisoning, marking it
> initialized (setting the shadow bytes to ``0x00``) is called unpoisoning.
> --
> 2.25.1
>
>
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