Re: [PATCH v3] {net, IB}/mlx5: Use 'kvfree()' for memory allocated by 'kvzalloc()'

From: Saeed Mahameed
Date: Wed May 16 2018 - 20:10:14 EST


On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 21:07 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> When 'kvzalloc()' is used to allocate memory, 'kvfree()' must be used
> to
> free it.
>
> Fixes: 1cbe6fc86ccfe ("IB/mlx5: Add support for CQE compressing")
> Fixes: fed9ce22bf8ae ("net/mlx5: E-Switch, Add API to create vport rx
> rules")
> Fixes: 9efa75254593d ("net/mlx5_core: Introduce access functions to
> query vport RoCE fields")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 -> v2: More places to update have been added to the patch
> v2 -> v3: Add Fixes tag
>
> 3 patches with one Fixes tag each should probably be better, but
> honestly, I won't send a v4.
> Fill free to split it if needed.

Applied to mlx5-next, thanks Christophe!

> ---
> drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cq.c | 2 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c | 2 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vport.c | 6 +++
> ---
> 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cq.c
> b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cq.c
> index 77d257ec899b..6d52ea03574e 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cq.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cq.c
> @@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ static int create_cq_user(struct mlx5_ib_dev
> *dev, struct ib_udata *udata,
> return 0;
>
> err_cqb:
> - kfree(*cqb);
> + kvfree(*cqb);
>
> err_db:
> mlx5_ib_db_unmap_user(to_mucontext(context), &cq->db);
> diff --git
> a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
> index 35e256eb2f6e..b123f8a52ad8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
> @@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ static int esw_create_vport_rx_group(struct
> mlx5_eswitch *esw)
>
> esw->offloads.vport_rx_group = g;
> out:
> - kfree(flow_group_in);
> + kvfree(flow_group_in);
> return err;
> }
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vport.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vport.c
> index 177e076b8d17..719cecb182c6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vport.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vport.c
> @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ int mlx5_query_nic_vport_system_image_guid(struct
> mlx5_core_dev *mdev,
> *system_image_guid = MLX5_GET64(query_nic_vport_context_out,
> out,
> nic_vport_context.system_ima
> ge_guid);
>
> - kfree(out);
> + kvfree(out);
>
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ int mlx5_query_nic_vport_node_guid(struct
> mlx5_core_dev *mdev, u64 *node_guid)
> *node_guid = MLX5_GET64(query_nic_vport_context_out, out,
> nic_vport_context.node_guid);
>
> - kfree(out);
> + kvfree(out);
>
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ int mlx5_query_nic_vport_qkey_viol_cntr(struct
> mlx5_core_dev *mdev,
> *qkey_viol_cntr = MLX5_GET(query_nic_vport_context_out, out,
> nic_vport_context.qkey_violation_
> counter);
>
> - kfree(out);
> + kvfree(out);
>
> return 0;
> }