Re: [PATCH v2] vfs/xattr: mm/shmem: kernfs: release simple xattr entry in a right way

On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 01:16:08PM +0800, Chengguang Xu wrote:

After commit fdc85222d58e ("kernfs: kvmalloc xattr value instead of kmalloc"), simple xattr entry is allocated with kvmalloc() instead of kmalloc(), so we should release it with kvfree() instead of kfree().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.7 Cc: Daniel Xu dxu@dxuuu.xyz Cc: Chris Down chris@chrisdown.name Cc: Andreas Dilger adilger@dilger.ca Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org Cc: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Fixes: fdc85222d58e ("kernfs: kvmalloc xattr value instead of kmalloc") Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu cgxu519@mykernel.net

Acked-by: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org

Thanks.