lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2016]   [Apr]   [11]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: dm: ioctl: use kvfree
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

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2016-04-11 18:21    [W:0.072 / U:0.284 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site