Re: [PATCH] rsi: Free the unaligned pointer

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On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 01:30:35PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 14:23 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The problem here is that we allocate "data".  Then we do
> > "data = PTR_ALIGN(data, 8);" and then we free the aligned pointer and
> > not the one we allocated.
> 
> That seems pretty pointless, since kmalloc guarantees such alignment for
> sure. Better to just remove PTR_ALIGN()?

Yeah.  You're probably right.  I was thinking that maybe
ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN was smaller than 8 somewhere but look it it now, I
think it's always 8 or more.

Let me resend with the ALIGN() removed.

regards,
dan carpenter

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