linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 5/8] zram: avoid double free in error recovery path of zram_bvec

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Date:	Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:27:03 +0200
From:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
To:	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@...wei.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 5/8] zram: avoid double free in error recovery
 path of zram_bvec_write()

The patch seems right, but the title is wrong: this is not a error recovery path.
Also, the description is missing again.

Jerome

On 06/03/2013 05:42 PM, Jiang Liu wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> index 3d90344..66cf28a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -272,8 +272,6 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
>  
>  	if (page_zero_filled(uncmem)) {
>  		kunmap_atomic(user_mem);
> -		if (is_partial_io(bvec))
> -			kfree(uncmem);
>  		zram->stats.pages_zero++;
>  		zram_set_flag(meta, index, ZRAM_ZERO);
>  		ret = 0;
> 

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