linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gve: replace kfree with kvfree

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Date:   Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:44:54 -0700
From:   Catherine Sullivan <csully@...gle.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     chuhongyuan@...look.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gve: replace kfree with kvfree

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 4:32 PM David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> From: Chuhong YUAN <chuhongyuan@...look.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:59:02 +0000
>
> > Variables allocated by kvzalloc should not be freed by kfree.
> > Because they may be allocated by vmalloc.
> > So we replace kfree with kvfree here.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chuhong Yuan <chuhongyuan@...look.com>
>
> Applied, thanks Chuhong.
>
> GVE maintainers, you are upstream now and have to stay on top of review
> of changes like this.  Otherwise I'll just review it myself and apply
> it unless I find problems, and that may not be what you want :)

Will do, thanks for the review. And thanks for the fix Chuhong.