* [PATCH] powerpc64/kasan: Remove unreachable invalid range check in kasan_init_phys_region()
@ 2026-06-26 3:29 Sang-Heon Jeon
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From: Sang-Heon Jeon @ 2026-06-26 3:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman
Cc: rppt, Sang-Heon Jeon, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP), linuxppc-dev,
Nicholas Piggin
kasan_init() maps each memblock region with for_each_mem_range() and passes
it to kasan_init_phys_region(), which does nothing 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>
---
This patch is similar to my earlier series [1] that removed unreachable invalid
range checks in memblock iteration loops. I just missed it at the time.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260621145919.1453-1-ekffu200098@gmail.com/
---
arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3e_64.c | 3 ---
arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c | 3 ---
2 files changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3e_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3e_64.c
index 0d3a73d6d4b0..0ed372fb8b09 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3e_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3e_64.c
@@ -68,9 +68,6 @@ static void __init kasan_init_phys_region(void *start, void *end)
unsigned long k_start, k_end, k_cur;
void *va;
- if (start >= end)
- return;
-
k_start = ALIGN_DOWN((unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(start), PAGE_SIZE);
k_end = ALIGN((unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(end), PAGE_SIZE);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c
index dcafa641804c..ccfbfb894637 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c
@@ -24,9 +24,6 @@ static void __init kasan_init_phys_region(void *start, void *end)
unsigned long k_start, k_end, k_cur;
void *va;
- if (start >= end)
- return;
-
k_start = ALIGN_DOWN((unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(start), PAGE_SIZE);
k_end = ALIGN((unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(end), PAGE_SIZE);
--
2.43.0
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