Merge tag 'v5.5-rc1' into core/kprobes, to resolve conflicts

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index b4c58a191eb1..a4b241102771 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -22,6 +22,18 @@ struct notifier_block;		/* in notifier.h */
 #define VM_UNINITIALIZED	0x00000020	/* vm_struct is not fully initialized */
 #define VM_NO_GUARD		0x00000040      /* don't add guard page */
 #define VM_KASAN		0x00000080      /* has allocated kasan shadow memory */
+
+/*
+ * VM_KASAN is used slighly differently depending on CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC.
+ *
+ * If IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC), VM_KASAN is set on a vm_struct after
+ * shadow memory has been mapped. It's used to handle allocation errors so that
+ * we don't try to poision shadow on free if it was never allocated.
+ *
+ * Otherwise, VM_KASAN is set for kasan_module_alloc() allocations and used to
+ * determine which allocations need the module shadow freed.
+ */
+
 /*
  * Memory with VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS cannot be freed in an interrupt or with
  * vfree_atomic().