Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Fixes to bootconfig memory management

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:48:15 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:38 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > So I'll do a minimal conversion that adds "memblock_free_ptr()" and
> > hope that people start using that. And then we can later try to move
> > "memblock_free()" to a name that isn't so misleading.  
> 
> Commit 77e02cf57b6c ("memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()'
> interface") should hopefully fix that panic that Vlastimil saw, and
> the kernel test robot report as well.
> 
> And it should make it easy to cleanly fix that 'copy' leak too.
> 

Vlastimil,

Can you confirm that Linus's changes addresses your issue?

Masami,

Care to rebase on top of Linus's change?

Thanks!

-- Steve