diff --git a/include/linux/kasan.h b/include/linux/kasan.h
index f8ebde384bd7..e636a00e26ba 100644
--- a/include/linux/kasan.h
+++ b/include/linux/kasan.h
@@ -268,8 +268,9 @@ bool __kasan_mempool_poison_object(void *ptr, unsigned long ip);
  * to reuse them instead of freeing them back to the slab allocator (e.g.
  * mempool).
  *
- * This function poisons a slab allocation without initializing its memory and
- * without putting it into the quarantine (for the Generic mode).
+ * This function poisons a slab allocation and saves a free stack trace for it
+ * without initializing the allocation's memory and without putting it into the
+ * quarantine (for the Generic mode).
  *
  * This function also performs checks to detect double-free and invalid-free
  * bugs and reports them. The caller can use the return value of this function
diff --git a/mm/kasan/common.c b/mm/kasan/common.c
index 3f4a1ed69e03..59146886e57d 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/common.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/common.c
@@ -207,8 +207,8 @@ void * __must_check __kasan_init_slab_obj(struct kmem_cache *cache,
 	return (void *)object;
 }
 
-static inline bool ____kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
-				unsigned long ip, bool quarantine, bool init)
+static inline bool poison_slab_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
+				      unsigned long ip, bool init)
 {
 	void *tagged_object;
 
@@ -221,13 +221,12 @@ static inline bool ____kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
 	if (is_kfence_address(object))
 		return false;
 
-	if (unlikely(nearest_obj(cache, virt_to_slab(object), object) !=
-	    object)) {
+	if (unlikely(nearest_obj(cache, virt_to_slab(object), object) != object)) {
 		kasan_report_invalid_free(tagged_object, ip, KASAN_REPORT_INVALID_FREE);
 		return true;
 	}
 
-	/* RCU slabs could be legally used after free within the RCU period */
+	/* RCU slabs could be legally used after free within the RCU period. */
 	if (unlikely(cache->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU))
 		return false;
 
@@ -239,19 +238,18 @@ static inline bool ____kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
 	kasan_poison(object, round_up(cache->object_size, KASAN_GRANULE_SIZE),
 			KASAN_SLAB_FREE, init);
 
-	if ((IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) && !quarantine))
-		return false;
-
 	if (kasan_stack_collection_enabled())
 		kasan_save_free_info(cache, tagged_object);
 
-	return kasan_quarantine_put(cache, object);
+	return false;
 }
 
 bool __kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
 				unsigned long ip, bool init)
 {
-	return ____kasan_slab_free(cache, object, ip, true, init);
+	bool buggy_object = poison_slab_object(cache, object, ip, init);
+
+	return buggy_object ? true : kasan_quarantine_put(cache, object);
 }
 
 static inline bool check_page_allocation(void *ptr, unsigned long ip)
@@ -472,7 +470,7 @@ bool __kasan_mempool_poison_object(void *ptr, unsigned long ip)
 	}
 
 	slab = folio_slab(folio);
-	return !____kasan_slab_free(slab->slab_cache, ptr, ip, false, false);
+	return !poison_slab_object(slab->slab_cache, ptr, ip, false);
 }
 
 void __kasan_mempool_unpoison_object(void *ptr, size_t size, unsigned long ip)