On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:54 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 21:57 -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > > v4: > > - Break out the memzero_explicit() change as suggested by Dan Carpenter > > so that it can be backported to stable. > > - Drop the "crypto: Remove unnecessary memzero_explicit()" patch for > > now as there can be a bit more discussion on what is best. It will be > > introduced as a separate patch later on after this one is merged. > > To this larger audience and last week without reply: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/573b3fbd5927c643920e1364230c296b23e7584d.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Are there _any_ fastpath uses of kfree or vfree? The networking stack has various places where there will be a quick kmalloc followed by a kfree for an incoming or outgoing packet. One place that comes to mind would be esp_alloc_tmp, which does a quick allocation of some temporary kmalloc memory, processes some packet things inside of that, and then frees it, sometimes in the same function, and sometimes later in an async callback. I don't know how "fastpath" you consider this, but usually packet processing is something people want to do with minimal overhead, considering how fast NICs are these days.
