Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel

From: Roman Gushchin
Date: Mon Apr 26 2021 - 16:29:53 EST


On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 01:18:14PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
> msg_queue and shmid_kernel are quite small objects, no need to use
> kvmalloc for them.
> Previously these objects was allocated via ipc_alloc/ipc_rcu_alloc(),
> common function for several ipc objects. It had kvmalloc call inside().
> Later, this function went away and was finally replaced by direct
> kvmalloc call, and now we can use more suitable kmalloc/kfree for them.
>
> Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>

Thanks!