netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net/mlx5: Replace kfree with kvfree

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Date:   Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:11:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     saeedm@...lanox.com
Cc:     hslester96@...il.com, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, leon@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/mlx5: Replace kfree with kvfree

From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:38:34 +0000

> On Wed, 2019-07-17 at 18:14 +0800, Chuhong Yuan wrote:
>> Variable allocated by kvmalloc should not be freed by kfree.
>> Because it may be allocated by vmalloc.
>> So replace kfree with kvfree here.
>> 
>> Fixes: 9b1f298236057 ("net/mlx5: Add support for FW fatal reporter
>> dump")
>> Signed-off-by: Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@...il.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
> 
> Dave, i guess this can go to net.

Ok, applied.