[PATCH] keys/keyctl: Use kfree_rcu instead of kfree

Siddh Raman Pant code at siddh.me
Sat Jul 23 13:50:35 UTC 2022


In keyctl_watch_key, use kfree_rcu() for freeing watch and wlist
as they support RCU and have an rcu_head in the struct definition.

Signed-off-by: Siddh Raman Pant <code at siddh.me>
---
 security/keys/keyctl.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c
index 96a92a645216..087fbc141cfd 100644
--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -1832,9 +1832,9 @@ long keyctl_watch_key(key_serial_t id, int watch_queue_fd, int watch_id)
 	}
 
 err_watch:
-	kfree(watch);
+	kfree_rcu(watch, rcu);
 err_wlist:
-	kfree(wlist);
+	kfree_rcu(wlist, rcu);
 err_wqueue:
 	put_watch_queue(wqueue);
 err_key:
-- 
2.35.1




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