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-rw-r--r--include/linux/poison.h4
-rw-r--r--mm/Kconfig.debug12
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c8
-rw-r--r--tools/include/linux/poison.h6
4 files changed, 2 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
index dc8ae5d8db03..aff1c9250c82 100644
--- a/include/linux/poison.h
+++ b/include/linux/poison.h
@@ -27,11 +27,7 @@
 #define TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC	((void *) 0x300 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
 
 /********** mm/page_poison.c **********/
-#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
-#define PAGE_POISON 0x00
-#else
 #define PAGE_POISON 0xaa
-#endif
 
 /********** mm/page_alloc.c ************/
 
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug
index 14e29fe5bfa6..1e73717802f8 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -80,18 +80,6 @@ config PAGE_POISONING
 
 	  If unsure, say N
 
-config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
-	bool "Use zero for poisoning instead of debugging value"
-	depends on PAGE_POISONING
-	help
-	   Instead of using the existing poison value, fill the pages with
-	   zeros. This makes it harder to detect when errors are occurring
-	   due to sanitization but the zeroing at free means that it is
-	   no longer necessary to write zeros when GFP_ZERO is used on
-	   allocation.
-
-	   If unsure, say N
-
 config DEBUG_PAGE_REF
 	bool "Enable tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index efcd1baa35e4..918647ff6eef 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2228,12 +2228,6 @@ static inline int check_new_page(struct page *page)
 	return 1;
 }
 
-static inline bool free_pages_prezeroed(void)
-{
-	return (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO) &&
-		page_poisoning_enabled_static()) || want_init_on_free();
-}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
 /*
  * With DEBUG_VM enabled, order-0 pages are checked for expected state when
@@ -2296,7 +2290,7 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
 	kernel_unpoison_pages(page, 1 << order);
 	set_page_owner(page, order, gfp_flags);
 
-	if (!free_pages_prezeroed() && want_init_on_alloc(gfp_flags))
+	if (!want_init_on_free() && want_init_on_alloc(gfp_flags))
 		kernel_init_free_pages(page, 1 << order);
 }
 
diff --git a/tools/include/linux/poison.h b/tools/include/linux/poison.h
index d29725769107..2e6338ac5eed 100644
--- a/tools/include/linux/poison.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/poison.h
@@ -35,12 +35,8 @@
  */
 #define TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC	((void *) 0x300 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
 
-/********** mm/debug-pagealloc.c **********/
-#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
-#define PAGE_POISON 0x00
-#else
+/********** mm/page_poison.c **********/
 #define PAGE_POISON 0xaa
-#endif
 
 /********** mm/page_alloc.c ************/