Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] kasan: improve slab object description

[Andrey Ryabinin]

On 03/02/2017 04:48 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> Changes slab object description from:
> 
> Object at ffff880068388540, in cache kmalloc-128 size: 128
> 
> to:
> 
> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff880068388540
>  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
> The buggy address is located 123 bytes inside of
>  128-byte region [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
> 
> Makes it more explanatory and adds information about relative offset
> of the accessed address to the start of the object.
> 

I don't think that this is an improvement. You replaced one simple line with a huge
and hard to parse text without giving any new/useful information.
Except maybe offset, it useful sometimes, so wouldn't mind adding it to description.