Re: [PATCH 1/1] lib/iov_iter: fix import_iovec_ubuf iovec management

[Pavel Begunkov]

On 1/31/25 14:13, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> import_iovec() says that it should always be fine to kfree the iovec
> returned in @iovp regardless of the error code. __import_iovec_ubuf()
> never reallocates it and thus should clear the pointer even in cases
> when copy_iovec_*() fail.

To be fair, all callers I checked don't look at the returned iovec
if import_iovec*() fails, but I didn't track down all of them.

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Pavel Begunkov