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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kernel/memremap: Remove stale devres_free() call


On 05/03/18 09:56 PM, Oliver O'Halloran wrote:
> devm_memremap_pages() was re-worked in e8d513483300 to take a caller
> allocated struct dev_pagemap as a function parameter. A call to
> devres_free() was left in the error cleanup path which results in
> a kernel panic if the remap fails for some reason. Remove it
> to fix the panic and let devm_memremap_pages() fail gracefully.
>
> Fixes: e8d513483300 ("memremap: change devm_memremap_pages interface to use struct dev_pagemap")
> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>

> ---
> Both in-tree users of devm_memremap_pages() embed dev_pagemap into other
> structures so this shouldn't cause any leaks. Logan's p2p series does
> add one usage that assumes pgmap will be freed on error so that'll
> need fixing.

Yup, nice catch! I'll fix that for the next series.

Thanks,

Logan

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