+ kasan-drop-skip_kasan_poison-variable-in-free_pages_prepare.patch added to -mm tree

+ kasan-drop-skip_kasan_poison-variable-in-free_pages_prepare.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: kasan: drop skip_kasan_poison variable in free_pages_prepare
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     kasan-drop-skip_kasan_poison-variable-in-free_pages_prepare.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kasan-drop-skip_kasan_poison-variable-in-free_pages_prepare.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kasan-drop-skip_kasan_poison-variable-in-free_pages_prepare.patch

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From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Subject: kasan: drop skip_kasan_poison variable in free_pages_prepare

skip_kasan_poison is only used in a single place.  Call
should_skip_kasan_poison() directly for simplicity.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1d33212e79bc9ef0b4d3863f903875823e89046f.1643047180.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/page_alloc.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~kasan-drop-skip_kasan_poison-variable-in-free_pages_prepare
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1301,7 +1301,6 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_p
 			unsigned int order, bool check_free, fpi_t fpi_flags)
 {
 	int bad = 0;
-	bool skip_kasan_poison = should_skip_kasan_poison(page, fpi_flags);
 	bool init = want_init_on_free();
 
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail(page), page);
@@ -1375,7 +1374,7 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_p
 	 * With hardware tag-based KASAN, memory tags must be set before the
 	 * page becomes unavailable via debug_pagealloc or arch_free_page.
 	 */
-	if (!skip_kasan_poison) {
+	if (!should_skip_kasan_poison(page, fpi_flags)) {
 		kasan_poison_pages(page, order, init);
 
 		/* Memory is already initialized if KASAN did it internally. */
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from andreyknvl@google.com are

kasan-page_alloc-deduplicate-should_skip_kasan_poison.patch
kasan-page_alloc-move-tag_clear_highpage-out-of-kernel_init_free_pages.patch
kasan-page_alloc-merge-kasan_free_pages-into-free_pages_prepare.patch
kasan-page_alloc-simplify-kasan_poison_pages-call-site.patch
kasan-page_alloc-init-memory-of-skipped-pages-on-free.patch
kasan-drop-skip_kasan_poison-variable-in-free_pages_prepare.patch
mm-clarify-__gfp_zerotags-comment.patch
kasan-only-apply-__gfp_zerotags-when-memory-is-zeroed.patch
kasan-page_alloc-refactor-init-checks-in-post_alloc_hook.patch
kasan-page_alloc-merge-kasan_alloc_pages-into-post_alloc_hook.patch
kasan-page_alloc-combine-tag_clear_highpage-calls-in-post_alloc_hook.patch
kasan-page_alloc-move-setpageskipkasanpoison-in-post_alloc_hook.patch
kasan-page_alloc-move-kernel_init_free_pages-in-post_alloc_hook.patch
kasan-page_alloc-rework-kasan_unpoison_pages-call-site.patch
kasan-clean-up-metadata-byte-definitions.patch
kasan-define-kasan_vmalloc_invalid-for-sw_tags.patch
kasan-x86-arm64-s390-rename-functions-for-modules-shadow.patch
kasan-vmalloc-drop-outdated-vm_kasan-comment.patch
kasan-reorder-vmalloc-hooks.patch
kasan-add-wrappers-for-vmalloc-hooks.patch
kasan-vmalloc-reset-tags-in-vmalloc-functions.patch
kasan-fork-reset-pointer-tags-of-vmapped-stacks.patch
kasan-arm64-reset-pointer-tags-of-vmapped-stacks.patch
kasan-vmalloc-add-vmalloc-tagging-for-sw_tags.patch
kasan-vmalloc-arm64-mark-vmalloc-mappings-as-pgprot_tagged.patch
kasan-vmalloc-unpoison-vm_alloc-pages-after-mapping.patch
kasan-mm-only-define-___gfp_skip_kasan_poison-with-hw_tags.patch
kasan-page_alloc-allow-skipping-unpoisoning-for-hw_tags.patch
kasan-page_alloc-allow-skipping-memory-init-for-hw_tags.patch
kasan-vmalloc-add-vmalloc-tagging-for-hw_tags.patch
kasan-vmalloc-only-tag-normal-vmalloc-allocations.patch
kasan-arm64-dont-tag-executable-vmalloc-allocations.patch
kasan-mark-kasan_arg_stacktrace-as-__initdata.patch
kasan-clean-up-feature-flags-for-hw_tags-mode.patch
kasan-add-kasanvmalloc-command-line-flag.patch
kasan-allow-enabling-kasan_vmalloc-and-sw-hw_tags.patch
arm64-select-kasan_vmalloc-for-sw-hw_tags-modes.patch
kasan-documentation-updates.patch
kasan-improve-vmalloc-tests.patch