linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] mm: kmemleak: drop wrong comment

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Message-ID: <3dfd09bc0e77bb626619184a808774ff07de275c.1746046744.git.luizcap@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:59:46 -0400
From: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@...hat.com>
To: catalin.marinas@....com
Cc: lcapitulino@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	david@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] mm: kmemleak: drop wrong comment

Newly created objects have object->count == 0, so the comment is
incorrect. Just drop it.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@...hat.com>
---
 mm/kmemleak.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index e6df94c7b032..06baa3475252 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -322,8 +322,6 @@ static void hex_dump_object(struct seq_file *seq,
  *		sufficient references to it (count >= min_count)
  * - black - ignore, it doesn't contain references (e.g. text section)
  *		(min_count == -1). No function defined for this color.
- * Newly created objects don't have any color assigned (object->count == -1)
- * before the next memory scan when they become white.
  */
 static bool color_white(const struct kmemleak_object *object)
 {
-- 
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