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kasan: clarify comment in __kasan_kfree_large
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Currently it says that the memory gets poisoned by page_alloc code.
Clarify this by mentioning the specific callback that poisons the memory.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1c8380fe0332a3bcc720fe29f1e0bef2e2974416.1606162397.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I1334dffb69b87d7986fab88a1a039cc3ea764725
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Branislav Rankov <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <[email protected]>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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xairy authored and torvalds committed Dec 22, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -446,5 +446,5 @@ 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(). */
}

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