mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool
The kzalloc mempool zeros items when they are initially allocated, but does not rezero used items that are returned to the pool. Consequently mempool_alloc()s may return non-zeroed memory. Since there are/were only two in-tree users for mempool_create_kzalloc_pool(), and 'fixing' this in a way that will re-zero used (but not new) items before first use is non-trivial, just remove it. Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -308,13 +308,6 @@ void *mempool_kmalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data)
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EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kmalloc);
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void *mempool_kzalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data)
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{
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size_t size = (size_t)pool_data;
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return kzalloc(size, gfp_mask);
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}
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EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kzalloc);
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void mempool_kfree(void *element, void *pool_data)
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{
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kfree(element);
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