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nick kvfree() from apparmor
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too many places open-code it

Conflicts:
	mm/util.c

Bug: 17871993
Change-Id: I007f4b663d7af564b2ce4009f5e13eeeeb82929a
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Git-commit: 39f1f78d53b9bcbca91967380c5f0f2305a5c55f
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
[jgebben@codeaurora.org: Remove redundant apparmor code not present upstream]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Gebben <jgebben@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Naveen Ramaraj <nramaraj@codeaurora.org>
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Al Viro authored and Iliyan Malchev committed Nov 20, 2014
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/mm.h
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Expand Up @@ -321,6 +321,8 @@ static inline int is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(const void *x)
}
#endif

extern void kvfree(const void *addr);

static inline void compound_lock(struct page *page)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
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13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions mm/util.c
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#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/swapops.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>

#include "internal.h"
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}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_user_pages_fast);

void kvfree(const void *addr)
{
if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr))
vfree(addr);
else
kfree(addr);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvfree);

/* Tracepoints definitions. */
EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmalloc);
EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc);
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion security/apparmor/include/apparmor.h
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Expand Up @@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ extern int apparmor_initialized __initdata;
char *aa_split_fqname(char *args, char **ns_name);
void aa_info_message(const char *str);
void *kvmalloc(size_t size);
void kvfree(void *buffer);


/**
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31 changes: 0 additions & 31 deletions security/apparmor/lib.c
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Expand Up @@ -104,34 +104,3 @@ void *kvmalloc(size_t size)
return buffer;
}

/**
* 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)
*
* Free a buffer allocated by kvmalloc
*/
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
kfree(buffer);
}

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