linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/rdmavt: free the userspace memory region with kfree instead of vfree

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Date:   Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:10:11 -0400
From:   Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/rdmavt: free the userspace memory region with kfree
 instead of vfree

On 9/9/2016 3:15 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The userspace memory region 'mr' is allocated with kzalloc in
> __rvt_alloc_mr  however it is incorrectly being freed with vfree in
> __rvt_free_mr. Fix this by using kfree to free it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/mr.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/mr.c
> index 80c4b6b..46b6497 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/mr.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/mr.c
> @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ static void __rvt_free_mr(struct rvt_mr *mr)
>  {
>  	rvt_deinit_mregion(&mr->mr);
>  	rvt_free_lkey(&mr->mr);
> -	vfree(mr);
> +	kfree(mr);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> 

Thanks, applied.

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Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
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