[dm-devel] [git pull] device mapper changes for 6.1

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Thu Oct 20 08:16:05 UTC 2022


On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 02:48:01PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > 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.

If I understand the patch correct it tries to use it to detect if
a string is a string global.  Besides being nasty API abuse I can't
see how this would even work if DM is built in.



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