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From: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] kasan: docs: SLUB is the only remaining slab
 implementation
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To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, workflows@vger.kernel.org,
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On 3/3/26 13:04, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> We have only the SLUB implementation left in the kernel (referred to
> as "slab"). Therefore, there is nothing special regarding KASAN modes
> when it comes to the slab allocator anymore.

Right, thanks.

> Drop the stale comment regarding differing SLUB vs. SLAB support.
> 
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>

> ---
>  Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
> index a034700da7c4..4968b2aa60c8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
> @@ -75,9 +75,6 @@ Software Tag-Based KASAN supports slab, page_alloc, vmalloc, and stack memory.
>  Hardware Tag-Based KASAN supports slab, page_alloc, and non-executable vmalloc
>  memory.
>  
> -For slab, both software KASAN modes support SLUB and SLAB allocators, while
> -Hardware Tag-Based KASAN only supports SLUB.
> -
>  Usage
>  -----
>