+ ntfs-use-kvfree-in-ntfs_free.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: NTFS: use kvfree() in ntfs_free()
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     ntfs-use-kvfree-in-ntfs_free.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ntfs-use-kvfree-in-ntfs_free.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ntfs-use-kvfree-in-ntfs_free.patch

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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: NTFS: use kvfree() in ntfs_free()

Use kvfree() instead of open-coding it.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 fs/ntfs/malloc.h |    7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/ntfs/malloc.h~ntfs-use-kvfree-in-ntfs_free fs/ntfs/malloc.h
--- a/fs/ntfs/malloc.h~ntfs-use-kvfree-in-ntfs_free
+++ a/fs/ntfs/malloc.h
@@ -85,12 +85,7 @@ static inline void *ntfs_malloc_nofs_nof
 
 static inline void ntfs_free(void *addr)
 {
-	if (!is_vmalloc_addr(addr)) {
-		kfree(addr);
-		/* free_page((unsigned long)addr); */
-		return;
-	}
-	vfree(addr);
+	kvfree(addr);
 }
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_NTFS_MALLOC_H */
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from penberg@xxxxxxxxxx are

ntfs-use-kvfree-in-ntfs_free.patch
mm-slab_common-support-the-slub_debug-boot-option-on-specific-object-size.patch
mm-slab_common-support-the-slub_debug-boot-option-on-specific-object-size-fix.patch
slab-correct-size_index-table-before-replacing-the-bootstrap-kmem_cache_node.patch
slab-infrastructure-for-bulk-object-allocation-and-freeing-v3.patch
slub-bulk-alloc-extract-objects-from-the-per-cpu-slab.patch
slub-bulk-allocation-from-per-cpu-partial-pages.patch
slub-bulk-allocation-from-per-cpu-partial-pages-fix.patch
memblock-introduce-a-for_each_reserved_mem_region-iterator.patch
mm-meminit-move-page-initialization-into-a-separate-function.patch
mm-meminit-only-set-page-reserved-in-the-memblock-region.patch
mm-page_alloc-pass-pfn-to-__free_pages_bootmem.patch
mm-meminit-make-__early_pfn_to_nid-smp-safe-and-introduce-meminit_pfn_in_nid.patch
mm-meminit-inline-some-helper-functions.patch
mm-meminit-initialise-a-subset-of-struct-pages-if-config_deferred_struct_page_init-is-set.patch
mm-meminit-initialise-remaining-struct-pages-in-parallel-with-kswapd.patch
mm-meminit-minimise-number-of-pfn-page-lookups-during-initialisation.patch
x86-mm-enable-deferred-struct-page-initialisation-on-x86-64.patch
mm-meminit-free-pages-in-large-chunks-where-possible.patch
mm-meminit-reduce-number-of-times-pageblocks-are-set-during-struct-page-init.patch
mm-meminit-remove-mminit_verify_page_links.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-slb-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
ipc-utilc-use-kvfree-in-ipc_rcu_free.patch
linux-next.patch

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