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From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:11:50 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/slub: free KFENCE objects in slab_free_hook()
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On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 3:45=E2=80=AFPM Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote=
:
>
> The is_kfence_address() implementation tolerates tagged addresses,
> i.e. if it receives a tagged non-kfence address, it will never return
> true.
>
> The KASAN_HW_TAGS patches and KFENCE patches were in development
> concurrently, and at the time there was some conflict resolution that
> happened when both were merged. The
> is_kfence_address(kasan_reset_tag(..)) initially came from [1] but was
> squashed into 2b8305260fb.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/9dc196006921b191d25d10f6e611316db7da2efc.=
1611946152.git.andreyknvl@google.com/
>
> Andrey, do you recall what issue you encountered that needed kasan_reset_=
tag()?

I don't remember at this point, but this could have been just a safety meas=
ure.

If is_kfence_address tolerates tagged addresses, we should be able to
drop these kasan_reset_tag calls.