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>
diff --git a/include/linux/mempool.h b/include/linux/mempool.h
index 9be484d..7c08052 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempool.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempool.h
@@ -47,22 +47,16 @@
}
/*
- * 2 mempool_alloc_t's and a mempool_free_t to kmalloc/kzalloc and kfree
- * the amount of memory specified by pool_data
+ * a mempool_alloc_t and a mempool_free_t to kmalloc and kfree the
+ * amount of memory specified by pool_data
*/
void *mempool_kmalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data);
-void *mempool_kzalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data);
void mempool_kfree(void *element, void *pool_data);
static inline mempool_t *mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(int min_nr, size_t size)
{
return mempool_create(min_nr, mempool_kmalloc, mempool_kfree,
(void *) size);
}
-static inline mempool_t *mempool_create_kzalloc_pool(int min_nr, size_t size)
-{
- return mempool_create(min_nr, mempool_kzalloc, mempool_kfree,
- (void *) size);
-}
/*
* A mempool_alloc_t and mempool_free_t for a simple page allocator that