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On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> So it is OK to kvmalloc() something and pass it to either kfree() or
> kvfree(), and it had better be OK to kvmalloc() something and pass it
> to kvfree().

kvfree() is fine but not kfree().