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Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: media: atomisp2: Replace kfree()/vfree() with kvfree()

From Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: media: atomisp2: Replace kfree()/vfree() with kvfree()
Date 2017-07-08 11:00 +0200
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On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 20:41 -0400, Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
[...]
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/atomisp_cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/atomisp_cmd.c
> @@ -117,11 +117,7 @@ void *atomisp_kernel_zalloc(size_t bytes, bool
> zero_mem)
>   */
>  void atomisp_kernel_free(void *ptr)
>  {
> -	/* Verify if buffer was allocated by vmalloc() or kmalloc()
> */
> -	if (is_vmalloc_addr(ptr))
> -		vfree(ptr);
> -	else
> -		kfree(ptr);
> +	kvfree(ptr);
>  }
>  
>  /*

Why not get rid of the trivial wrapper function completely?

MfG,
	Bernd
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[PATCH 2/2] staging: media: atomisp2: Replace kfree()/vfree() with  kvfree() Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com> - 2017-07-08 02:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: media: atomisp2: Replace kfree()/vfree()  with kvfree() Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at> - 2017-07-08 11:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: media: atomisp2: Replace kfree()/vfree()  with kvfree() Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com> - 2017-07-09 01:00 +0200

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