Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: Use kfree(ft->g) in arfs_create_groups()

[Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>]

On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 12:57 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> On 6/5/20 12:22 PM, Denis Efremov wrote:
> > Use kfree() instead of kvfree() on ft->g in arfs_create_groups()
> > because
> > the memory is allocated with kcalloc().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_arfs.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_arfs.c
> > b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_arfs.c
> > index 014639ea06e3..c4c9d6cda7e6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_arfs.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_arfs.c
> > @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static int arfs_create_groups(struct
> > mlx5e_flow_table *ft,
> >  			sizeof(*ft->g), GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	in = kvzalloc(inlen, GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	if  (!in || !ft->g) {
> > -		kvfree(ft->g);
> > +		kfree(ft->g);
> >  		kvfree(in);
> >  		return -ENOMEM;
> >  	}
> > 
> 
> This is slow path, kvfree() is perfectly able to free memory that was
> kmalloc()ed
> 
> net-next is closed, can we avoid these patches during merge window ?

I agree, with Eric, better if we wait for net-next to open.

I will apply this once net-next is open. 

Thanks,
Saeed.