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authorAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>2013-05-06 06:10:35 +0400
committerJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2013-05-12 15:31:02 +0400
commitb5b3ee6c9cca8b6e1aa8c757e570f08f802c5573 (patch)
tree7c8d96e970311fcfdfd06f8bf8da1e8031c08434 /security/apparmor/lib.c
parentbd71164abc141ea696014e3e23c561b0d7f1b434 (diff)
downloadlinux-b5b3ee6c9cca8b6e1aa8c757e570f08f802c5573.tar.xz
apparmor: no need to delay vfree()
vfree() can be called from interrupt contexts now Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/apparmor/lib.c')
-rw-r--r--security/apparmor/lib.c24
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/security/apparmor/lib.c b/security/apparmor/lib.c
index d40bc592180d..fcfe0233574c 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lib.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lib.c
@@ -111,19 +111,6 @@ void *__aa_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
}
/**
- * do_vfree - workqueue routine for freeing vmalloced memory
- * @work: data to be freed
- *
- * The work_struct is overlaid to the data being freed, as at the point
- * the work is scheduled the data is no longer valid, be its freeing
- * needs to be delayed until safe.
- */
-static void do_vfree(struct work_struct *work)
-{
- vfree(work);
-}
-
-/**
* kvfree - free an allocation do by kvmalloc
* @buffer: buffer to free (MAYBE_NULL)
*
@@ -131,13 +118,8 @@ static void do_vfree(struct work_struct *work)
*/
void kvfree(void *buffer)
{
- if (is_vmalloc_addr(buffer)) {
- /* Data is no longer valid so just use the allocated space
- * as the work_struct
- */
- struct work_struct *work = (struct work_struct *) buffer;
- INIT_WORK(work, do_vfree);
- schedule_work(work);
- } else
+ if (is_vmalloc_addr(buffer))
+ vfree(buffer);
+ else
kfree(buffer);
}