linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] accel/rocket: Fix usages of kfree() and sizeof()

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Message-ID: <65769f0a-af9f-4e96-93d4-8594e76d8e73@web.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:56:35 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Brigham Campbell <me@...ghamcampbell.com>,
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, lkp@...el.com
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Julia Lawall
 <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>, Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@...nel.org>,
 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu@...euvizoso.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] accel/rocket: Fix usages of kfree() and sizeof()

> Replace usages of kfree() with kvfree() for pointers which were
> allocated using kvmalloc(), as required by the kernel memory management
> API.

How do you think about to add any tags (like “Fixes” and “Cc”) accordingly?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.17-rc1#n145

> Use sizeof() on the type that a pointer references instead of …

Would it be helpful to offer desirable changes by separate update steps?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.17-rc1#n81

Regards,
Markus