On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 04:39:33PM +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> kfree should be used to free memory allocated by kzalloc to avoid
> any overhead and for maintaining consistency.
>
> Fixes: 5dfeb6d945 ("cifsd: use kmalloc() for small allocations")
> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <musamaanjum@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This one place was left in earlier patch. I've already received
> responsse on that patch. I'm sending a separate patch.
>
> fs/cifsd/transport_tcp.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifsd/transport_tcp.c b/fs/cifsd/transport_tcp.c
> index 67163efcf472..040881893417 100644
> --- a/fs/cifsd/transport_tcp.c
> +++ b/fs/cifsd/transport_tcp.c
> @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ void ksmbd_tcp_destroy(void)
> list_for_each_entry_safe(iface, tmp, &iface_list, entry) {
> list_del(&iface->entry);
> kfree(iface->name);
> - ksmbd_free(iface);
> + kfree(iface);
We should just delete the ksmbd_free() function completely.
I think that cifsd is being re-written though so it might not be worth
it.
regards,
dan carpenter
