kasan_poison_new_object(9)

🦋 kasan_poison_new_object(9) — Kernel API Manual 💅

✨ NAME ✨

kasan_poison_new_object — Repoison a new slab object. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void kasan_poison_new_object (struct kmem_cache *cache , void *object );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• cache — the cache the object belongs to. 🫶
• object — pointer to the object. ✨

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so bestie, this one is for the slab allocator's internal use — it's giving internal-use energy, fr fr. 💅 It repoisons an object that was previously unpoisoned by kasan_unpoison_new_object, and it does that without doing anything else. No extra side quests, no cap. 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./include/linux/kasan.h — plus the whole friend group, iykyk:

• kasan_unpoison_new_object(9)
• kasan_slab_pre_free(9)
• kasan_slab_free(9)
• kasan_mempool_poison_pages(9)
• kasan_mempool_unpoison_pages(9)
• kasan_mempool_poison_object(9)
• kasan_mempool_unpoison_object(9)
• kasan_report(9)

source/version: ./include/linux · date: October 2026 · page: kasan_poison_new_object(9) — mwah, that's the cute sign-off 💋💖