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Commit b06952cd authored by Vlastimil Babka's avatar Vlastimil Babka
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mm/slub: remove redundant kasan_reset_tag() from freelist_ptr calculations



Commit d36a63a9 ("kasan, slub: fix more conflicts with
CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED") has introduced kasan_reset_tags() to
freelist_ptr() encoding/decoding when CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED is
enabled to resolve issues when passing tagged or untagged pointers
inconsistently would lead to incorrect calculations.

Later, commit aa1ef4d7 ("kasan, mm: reset tags when accessing
metadata") made sure all pointers have tags reset regardless of
CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED, because there was no other way to access
the freepointer metadata safely with hw tag-based KASAN.

Therefore the kasan_reset_tag() usage in freelist_ptr_encode()/decode()
is now redundant, as all callers use kasan_reset_tag() unconditionally
when constructing ptr_addr. Remove the redundant calls and simplify the
code and remove obsolete comments.

Also in freelist_ptr_encode() introduce an 'encoded' variable to make
the lines shorter and make it similar to the _decode() one.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
parent 44f6a42d
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