From: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>
To: rppt@kernel.org, Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/8] arm64: mm: remove unreachable invalid range check in kasan_init_shadow()
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:37:29 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260629163736.1606688-2-ekffu200098@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260629163736.1606688-1-ekffu200098@gmail.com>
kasan_init_shadow() maps each memblock region with for_each_mem_range()
and breaks the loop when start >= end. for_each_mem_range() never returns
an invalid range, so start < end always.
Therefore the start >= end check is unreachable, so remove it.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
---
arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
index 3fcad956fdf7..45fbdce684c8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
@@ -353,9 +353,6 @@ static void __init kasan_init_shadow(void)
void *start = (void *)__phys_to_virt(pa_start);
void *end = (void *)__phys_to_virt(pa_end);
- if (start >= end)
- break;
-
kasan_map_populate((unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(start),
(unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(end),
early_pfn_to_nid(virt_to_pfn(start)));
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-29 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-29 16:37 [PATCH v2 0/8] treewide: remove unnecessary invalid range checks in memblock iteration loops Sang-Heon Jeon
2026-06-29 16:37 ` Sang-Heon Jeon [this message]
2026-06-29 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] ARM: remove unreachable invalid range check in kasan_init() Sang-Heon Jeon
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