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From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dm: ioctl: use kvfree
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 21:39:53 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <570BCC51.50004@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160411151714.GB25938@redhat.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-11 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-11 15:14 [PATCH] dm: ioctl: use kvfree Sudip Mukherjee
2016-04-11 15:17 ` Mike Snitzer
2016-04-11 16:09   ` Sudip Mukherjee [this message]
2016-04-11 19:52     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2016-04-11 18:34 ` Guenter Roeck

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