[PATCH] dm ioctl: use kvfree() in free_params()

From: Geliang Tang
Date: Fri Oct 02 2015 - 09:47:32 EST


There is no need to make a flag to tell that this memory is allocated by
kmalloc or vmalloc. Just use kvfree to free the memory.

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 11 +----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
index 80a4395..dbb5588 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
@@ -1669,8 +1669,6 @@ static int check_version(unsigned int cmd, struct dm_ioctl __user *user)
return r;
}

-#define DM_PARAMS_KMALLOC 0x0001 /* Params alloced with kmalloc */
-#define DM_PARAMS_VMALLOC 0x0002 /* Params alloced with vmalloc */
#define DM_WIPE_BUFFER 0x0010 /* Wipe input buffer before returning from ioctl */

static void free_params(struct dm_ioctl *param, size_t param_size, int param_flags)
@@ -1678,10 +1676,7 @@ static void free_params(struct dm_ioctl *param, size_t param_size, int param_fla
if (param_flags & DM_WIPE_BUFFER)
memset(param, 0, param_size);

- if (param_flags & DM_PARAMS_KMALLOC)
- kfree(param);
- if (param_flags & DM_PARAMS_VMALLOC)
- vfree(param);
+ kvfree(param);
}

static int copy_params(struct dm_ioctl __user *user, struct dm_ioctl *param_kernel,
@@ -1715,8 +1710,6 @@ static int copy_params(struct dm_ioctl __user *user, struct dm_ioctl *param_kern
dmi = NULL;
if (param_kernel->data_size <= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) {
dmi = kmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
- if (dmi)
- *param_flags |= DM_PARAMS_KMALLOC;
}

if (!dmi) {
@@ -1724,8 +1717,6 @@ static int copy_params(struct dm_ioctl __user *user, struct dm_ioctl *param_kern
noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
dmi = __vmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_HIGH | __GFP_HIGHMEM, PAGE_KERNEL);
memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
- if (dmi)
- *param_flags |= DM_PARAMS_VMALLOC;
}

if (!dmi) {
--
2.5.0


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