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When freeing an object that was allocated from KFENCE, we do that in the slowpath __slab_free(), relying on the fact that KFENCE "slab" cannot be the cpu slab, so the fastpath has to fallback to the slowpath. This optimization doesn't help much though, because is_kfence_address() is checked earlier anyway during the free hook processing or detached freelist building. Thus we can simplify the code by making the slab_free_hook() free the KFENCE object immediately, similarly to KASAN quarantine. In slab_free_hook() we can place kfence_free() above init processing, as callers have been making sure to set init to false for KFENCE objects. This simplifies slab_free(). This places it also above kasan_slab_free() which is ok as that skips KFENCE objects anyway. While at it also determine the init value in slab_free_freelist_hook() outside of the loop. This change will also make introducing per cpu array caches easier. Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.