linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item

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Message-ID: <176438479590.3682470.14841073923853792072.b4-ty@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:30:06 -0500
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: njavali@...vell.com, Zilin Guan <zilin@....edu.cn>
Cc: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@...vell.com,
        James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jianhao.xu@....edu.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item

On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:12:46 +0000, Zilin Guan wrote:

> In qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb(), an item is allocated via
> qla27xx_copy_multiple_pkt(), which internally calls
> qla24xx_alloc_purex_item().
> 
> The qla24xx_alloc_purex_item() function may return a pre-allocated item
> from a per-adapter pool for small allocations, instead of dynamically
> allocating memory with kzalloc().
> 
> [...]

Applied to 6.19/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/78b1a242fe61

-- 
Martin K. Petersen