linux-kernel - [GIT PULL 2/8] lightnvm: pblk: use vfree to free metadata on error path

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Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:25:03 +0100
From:   Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>
To:     axboe@...com
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@...xlabs.com>,
        Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>
Subject: [GIT PULL 2/8] lightnvm: pblk: use vfree to free metadata on error path

From: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@...xlabs.com>

As chunk metadata is allocated using vmalloc, we need to free it
using vfree.

Fixes: 090ee26fd512 ("lightnvm: use internal allocation for chunk log page")
Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@...xlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>
---
 drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
index 1ff165351180..1b5ff51faa63 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ struct nvm_chk_meta *pblk_get_chunk_meta(struct pblk *pblk)
 
 	ret = nvm_get_chunk_meta(dev, ppa, geo->all_chunks, meta);
 	if (ret) {
-		kfree(meta);
+		vfree(meta);
 		return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
 	}
 
-- 
2.19.1