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

[Jens Axboe]

On 1/31/25 9:06 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> 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.

Yep I also checked too and didn't spot any issues from this, but it's
still prudent to clean it up.

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Jens Axboe