linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] KEYS: Use kvmalloc() to better handle large buffer allocation

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Message-ID: <f89b41ea8fc1ab84cc19fd1c1f9b048457bbc28d.camel@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:19:06 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc:     James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>,
        Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@...hat.com>,
        Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...wei.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        Chris von Recklinghausen <crecklin@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] KEYS: Use kvmalloc() to better handle large
 buffer allocation

On Mon, 2020-03-16 at 14:24 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> I wonder if it's worth merging this into patch 2.  I'm not sure it's really
> worth its own patch.  If you want to generalise kvzfree(), then that could go
> as its own patch first.
> 
> David

Also in the sense that there is no senseful situation where you'd
only wanted to pick either but not both.

/Jarkko