[dm-devel] [git pull] device mapper changes for 6.1
Mike Snitzer
snitzer at redhat.com
Tue Oct 18 18:48:01 UTC 2022
On Tue, Oct 18 2022 at 2:17P -0400,
Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 12:20:50PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> >
> > - Enhance DM ioctl interface to allow returning an error string to
> > userspace. Depends on exporting is_vmalloc_or_module_addr() to allow
> > DM core to conditionally free memory allocated with kasprintf().
>
> That really does not sound like a good idea at all. And it does not
> seem to have any MM or core maintainer signoffs.
Sorry, I should've solicited proper review more loudly.
But if you have a specific concern with how DM is looking to use
is_vmalloc_or_module_addr() please say what that is.
Mike
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