Re: [PATCH] docs/dev-tools: fix a typo

[Dongliang Mu]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 10:09 PM Haoyang Liu <tttturtleruss@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> fix a typo in dev-tools/kmsan.rst
>
> Signed-off-by: Haoyang Liu <tttturtleruss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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

This is not a typo. iff is if and only if

Dongliang Mu

>  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.
> --
> 2.25.1
>
>