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diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 55bef160b9f1..e79572b3684c 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -166,6 +166,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc); * * The memory of the object @p points to is zeroed before freed. * If @p is %NULL, kzfree() does nothing. + * + * Note: this function zeroes the whole allocated buffer which can be a good + * deal bigger than the requested buffer size passed to kmalloc(). So be + * careful when using this function in performance sensitive code. */ void kzfree(const void *p) { |