linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bpf: replace kvfree with kfree for kzalloc memory

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Message-ID: <5cdd264d324de1b78f4fc3768cc20a3ee79336d1.camel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:47:41 -0700
From: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@...il.com>
To: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng@...o.com>, Alexei Starovoitov
 <ast@...nel.org>,  Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, John Fastabend
 <john.fastabend@...il.com>, Andrii Nakryiko	 <andrii@...nel.org>, Martin
 KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>, Song Liu	 <song@...nel.org>, Yonghong
 Song <yonghong.song@...ux.dev>, KP Singh	 <kpsingh@...nel.org>, Stanislav
 Fomichev <sdf@...ichev.me>, Hao Luo	 <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa
 <jolsa@...nel.org>, bpf@...r.kernel.org, 	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: replace kvfree with kfree for kzalloc memory

On Mon, 2025-08-11 at 21:15 +0800, Qianfeng Rong wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry, please ignore this patch, because I found that there are still a 
> lot of mixed uses of kfree and kvfree in kernel/bpf/verifier.c. Best 
> regards, Qianfeng

Using kvfree() in this position was sloppy on my side,
thank you for noticing this.