From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
To: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree()
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:39:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+CK2bChpd-k0tpcQRdVmK0nmnOGKWExViVVwcmhryZVEZJFPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251118182218.63044-1-pratyush@kernel.org>
On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Before commit fa759cd75bce5 ("kho: allocate metadata directly from the
> buddy allocator"), the chunks were allocated from the slab allocator
> using kzalloc(). Those were rightly freed using kfree().
>
> When the commit switched to using the buddy allocator directly, it
> missed updating kho_mem_ser_free() to use free_page() instead of
> kfree().
>
> Fixes: fa759cd75bce5 ("kho: allocate metadata directly from the buddy allocator")
> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Thank you for finding and fixing this issue.
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-18 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-18 18:22 Pratyush Yadav
2025-11-18 18:39 ` Pasha Tatashin [this message]
2025-11-19 7:14 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-19 20:06 ` Markus Elfring
2025-11-20 9:21 ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-11-20 9:57 ` Markus Elfring
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