[PATCH 5.10 5.15] vfio/iommu_type1: replace kfree with kvfree
From: Nikolay Kuratov
Date: Fri Jun 19 2026 - 11:07:15 EST
From: Jiacheng Shi <billsjc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Jiacheng Shi <billsjc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 2bed2ced40c97b8540ff38df0149e8ecb2bf4c65 upstream.
Variables allocated by kvzalloc should not be freed by kfree.
Because they may be allocated by vmalloc.
So we replace kfree with kvfree here.
Fixes: d6a4c185660c ("vfio iommu: Implementation of ioctl for dirty pages tracking")
Signed-off-by: Jiacheng Shi <billsjc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211212091600.2560-1-billsjc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Kuratov <kniv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
index f17490ab238f..9394aa9444c1 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ static int vfio_dma_bitmap_alloc(struct vfio_dma *dma, size_t pgsize)
static void vfio_dma_bitmap_free(struct vfio_dma *dma)
{
- kfree(dma->bitmap);
+ kvfree(dma->bitmap);
dma->bitmap = NULL;
}
--
2.34.1