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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Haoyang Liu <tttturtleruss@hust.edu.cn>, Alexander Potapenko
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/dev-tools: fix a typo
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Haoyang Liu <tttturtleruss@hust.edu.cn> writes:

> fix a typo in dev-tools/kmsan.rst
>
> Signed-off-by: Haoyang Liu <tttturtleruss@hust.edu.cn>
> ---
>  Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst
> index 6a48d96c5c85..0dc668b183f6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst
> @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ KMSAN shadow memory
>  -------------------
>  
>  KMSAN associates a metadata byte (also called shadow byte) with every byte of
> -kernel memory. A bit in the shadow byte is set iff the corresponding bit of the
> +kernel memory. A bit in the shadow byte is set if the corresponding bit of the
>  kernel memory byte is uninitialized. Marking the memory uninitialized (i.e.
>  setting its shadow bytes to ``0xff``) is called poisoning, marking it
>  initialized (setting the shadow bytes to ``0x00``) is called unpoisoning.

So I have applied this, since "iff" is clearly confusing to a lot of
readers even iff it's correct.

Thanks,

jon