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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 12:30:39 -0800
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Matthew Wilcox
<mawilcox@...rosoft.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, Kees Cook
<keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] Convert virtio_console to kvzalloc_struct
On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 12:28 -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:19:47PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 12:11 -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > */
> > > - buf = kmalloc(sizeof(*buf) + sizeof(struct scatterlist) * pages,
> > > - GFP_KERNEL);
> > > + buf = kvzalloc_struct(buf, sg, pages, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > if (!buf)
> >
> > kvfree?
>
> Yes, that would also need to be done. The point of these last six
> patches was to show the API in use, not for applying.
That's what RFC is for...
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