Re: dm: ioctl: use kvfree

[Sudip Mukherjee]

On Monday 11 April 2016 08:47 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11 2016 at 11:14am -0400,
> Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > We can use kvfree() instead of calling kfree() and vfree() based on
> > if-else and param_flags. kvfree() will check the type of address and
> > will call the respective function to free it.
> > Additionally we can also remove the use of DM_PARAMS_KMALLOC and
> > DM_PARAMS_VMALLOC.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Have you actually tested htis?  Last time I looked to do this it exposed
> crashes.  I don't have time to dig into this again right now but this is
> _not_ as simple as this patch implies.

No, it was just build tested. Is it possible to test it in qemu or kvm?

regards
sudip