Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] bootconfig: Free copied bootconfig data after boot

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Sep 14 2021 - 21:14:12 EST


On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 5:53 PM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Free copied bootconfig data after booting kernel because that
> data will not be used anymore.

Don't do this.

You have already passed in that 'copy' to the xbc code, and
xbc_destroy_all() should just free it.

Don't add new pointless variables to keep track of state that somebody
else already keeps track of.

Linus