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mm/kasan: use SLAB_NO_MERGE flag instead of an empty constructor
authorHarry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Tue, 18 Mar 2025 01:59:26 +0000 (10:59 +0900)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 1 Apr 2025 22:17:10 +0000 (15:17 -0700)
commit7fa46cdfffd29459f9ebf6ed891a4c721db06a33
tree829e41d5c8be0a28600c2669a71076f13f42efc7
parent7a95a05f15d570e6087fea59280fe267fe809100
mm/kasan: use SLAB_NO_MERGE flag instead of an empty constructor

Use SLAB_NO_MERGE flag to prevent merging instead of providing an empty
constructor.  Using an empty constructor in this manner is an abuse of
slab interface.

The SLAB_NO_MERGE flag should be used with caution, but in this case, it
is acceptable as the cache is intended solely for debugging purposes.

No functional changes intended.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250318015926.1629748-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c