linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] tree-wide: rename vmemdup_user to kvmemdup

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Message-ID: <20200901151430.GB30709@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 1 Sep 2020 17:14:30 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>
Cc:     hch@....de, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, willy@...radead.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] tree-wide: rename vmemdup_user to kvmemdup_user

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 05:04:07PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> This helper uses kvmalloc, not vmalloc, so rename it to kvmemdup_user to
> make it clear we're using kvmalloc() and will need to use kvfree().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>