[PATCH] ARM: remove unreachable invalid range check in kasan_init()

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Sang-Heon Jeon

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Jun 25, 2026, 2:43:56 PM (5 days ago) Jun 25
to Andrey Ryabinin, Russell King, Sang-Heon Jeon, Alexander Potapenko, Andrey Konovalov, Dmitry Vyukov, kasa...@googlegroups.com, linux-ar...@lists.infradead.org, Vincenzo Frascino
kasan_init() maps each memblock region with for_each_mem_range(), which
guarantees pa_start < pa_end. Then it skips any region with
pa_start >= arm_lowmem_limit, so pa_start < arm_lowmem_limit is guaranteed
as well.

When pa_end <= arm_lowmem_limit, pa_start < pa_end means start < end, so
the start >= end check is unreachable.

When pa_end > arm_lowmem_limit, end is clamped to __va(arm_lowmem_limit),
and pa_start < arm_lowmem_limit means start < end, so the check is
unreachable as well.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu...@gmail.com>
---
arch/arm/mm/kasan_init.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/kasan_init.c b/arch/arm/mm/kasan_init.c
index c6625e808bf8..1f7c74c5df9e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/kasan_init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/kasan_init.c
@@ -262,12 +262,6 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
&pa_start, &pa_end, &arm_lowmem_limit);
end = __va(arm_lowmem_limit);
}
- if (start >= end) {
- pr_info("Skipping invalid memory block %pa-%pa (virtual %p-%p)\n",
- &pa_start, &pa_end, start, end);
- continue;
- }
-
create_mapping(start, end);
}

--
2.43.0

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