Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Apr 2016 21:39:53 +0530 | From | Sudip Mukherjee <> | Subject | Re: dm: ioctl: use kvfree |
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On Monday 11 April 2016 08:47 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11 2016 at 11:14am -0400, > Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We can use kvfree() instead of calling kfree() and vfree() based on >> if-else and param_flags. kvfree() will check the type of address and >> will call the respective function to free it. >> Additionally we can also remove the use of DM_PARAMS_KMALLOC and >> DM_PARAMS_VMALLOC. >> >> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk> > > Have you actually tested htis? Last time I looked to do this it exposed > crashes. I don't have time to dig into this again right now but this is > _not_ as simple as this patch implies. >
No, it was just build tested. Is it possible to test it in qemu or kvm?
regards sudip
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