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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c
Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 16:57:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <afS_RKHNBuiDoR11@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260430090110.f3ed78910ea7cface7d73199@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 09:01:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:35:10 +0300 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > These patches merge fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c and make
> > functions used only inside mm/userfaultfd.c static.
> 
> It's kinda scary how often Sashiko finds existing issues just because
> we made it look.
> 
> 	https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260430113512.115938-1-rppt@kernel.org
> 
> Do either of these look legit?  If so, it would be better to fix them
> before doing the code movement, for backporting ease.

One is real, another one is not.

> Another issue in the moved code: the ctx variable is annotated with
> __free(kfree) but allocated using kmem_cache_alloc() from the custom
> userfaultfd_ctx_cachep cache.

@Roman, can you please explain to sashiko that kfree() is fine with
kmem_cache_alloc()?

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.

      reply	other threads:[~2026-05-01 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-30 11:35 [PATCH 0/2] userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c Mike Rapoport
2026-04-30 11:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Mike Rapoport
2026-04-30 11:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] userfaultfd: make functions that are not used outside uffd static Mike Rapoport
2026-04-30 11:38 ` [PATCH 0/2] userfaultfd: merge fs/userfaultfd.c into mm/userfaultfd.c David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-30 14:23   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-30 14:55     ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-30 14:56     ` Mike Rapoport
2026-05-01 18:33       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-02  4:38         ` Mike Rapoport
2026-05-02  6:37           ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-30 16:01 ` Andrew Morton
2026-05-01 14:57   ` Mike Rapoport [this message]

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