linux-kernel - Re: [Linux-cifsd-devel] [PATCH] cifsd: use kfree to free memory allocated by kzalloc

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Date:   Thu, 1 Apr 2021 15:14:34 +0200
From:   Ralph Boehme <slow@...ba.org>
To:     Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM SERVER 
        <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>,
        COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM SERVER 
        <linux-cifsd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>, colin.king@...onical.com,
        Muhammad Usama Anjum <musamaanjum@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [Linux-cifsd-devel] [PATCH] cifsd: use kfree to free memory
 allocated by kzalloc

Am 4/1/21 um 2:59 PM schrieb Namjae Jeon:
> 2021-04-01 21:50 GMT+09:00, Ralph Boehme <slow@...ba.org>:
>> fwiw, while at it what about renaming everything that still references
>> "cifs" to "smb" ? This is not the 90's... :)
> It is also used with the name "ksmbd". So function and variable prefix
> are used with ksmbd.

well, I was thinking of this:

 > +++ b/fs/cifsd/...

We should really stop using the name cifs for modern implementation of 
SMB{23} and the code should not be added as fs/cifsd/ to the kernel.

Cheers!
-slow

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