+ mm-kmemleak-drop-wrong-comment.patch added to mm-unstable branch

+ mm-kmemleak-drop-wrong-comment.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm: kmemleak: drop wrong comment
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     mm-kmemleak-drop-wrong-comment.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-kmemleak-drop-wrong-comment.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@redhat.com>
Subject: mm: kmemleak: drop wrong comment
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:59:46 -0400

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

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3dfd09bc0e77bb626619184a808774ff07de275c.1746046744.git.luizcap@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/kmemleak.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/kmemleak.c~mm-kmemleak-drop-wrong-comment
+++ a/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -322,8 +322,6 @@ static void hex_dump_object(struct seq_f
  *		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)
 {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from luizcap@redhat.com are

mm-kmemleak-drop-kmemleak_warning-variable.patch
mm-kmemleak-drop-wrong-comment.patch
mm-kmemleak-mark-variables-as-__read_mostly.patch