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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/5] kmemleak: account for tagged pointers when calculating pointer range
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 02:58:28PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> kmemleak keeps two global variables, min_addr and max_addr, which store
> the range of valid (encountered by kmemleak) pointer values, which it
> later uses to speed up pointer lookup when scanning blocks.
>
> With tagged pointers this range will get bigger than it needs to be.
> This patch makes kmemleak untag pointers before saving them to min_addr
> and max_addr and when performing a lookup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>

I reviewed the old series. This patch also looks fine:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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