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kasan: add comment about UACCESS regions to kasan_report

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Add a comment explaining why kasan_report() is the only reporting function
that uses user_access_save/restore().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1201ca3c2be42c7bd077c53d2e46f4a51dd1476a.1646237226.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrey Konovalov 2022-03-24 18:13:03 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -430,6 +430,11 @@ void kasan_report_invalid_free(void *ptr, unsigned long ip)
end_report(&flags, ptr);
}
/*
* kasan_report() is the only reporting function that uses
* user_access_save/restore(): kasan_report_invalid_free() cannot be called
* from a UACCESS region, and kasan_report_async() is not used on x86.
*/
bool kasan_report(unsigned long addr, size_t size, bool is_write,
unsigned long ip)
{