[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "can: gw: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    can: gw: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From f0c993bbdda9fb6550a76d980cf82845bb4707b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:16:04 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] can: gw: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()

commit 3480a2125923e4b7a56d79efc76743089bf273fc upstream.

Memory allocated by kmem_cache_alloc() should be freed using
kmem_cache_free(), not kfree().

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn>
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan at hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl at pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/can/gw.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/can/gw.c b/net/can/gw.c
index b41acf2..423d226 100644
--- a/net/can/gw.c
+++ b/net/can/gw.c
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ static int cgw_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
 			if (gwj->src.dev == dev || gwj->dst.dev == dev) {
 				hlist_del(&gwj->list);
 				cgw_unregister_filter(gwj);
-				kfree(gwj);
+				kmem_cache_free(cgw_cache, gwj);
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ static void cgw_remove_all_jobs(void)
 	hlist_for_each_entry_safe(gwj, n, nx, &cgw_list, list) {
 		hlist_del(&gwj->list);
 		cgw_unregister_filter(gwj);
-		kfree(gwj);
+		kmem_cache_free(cgw_cache, gwj);
 	}
 }

@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ static int cgw_remove_job(struct sk_buff *skb,  struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)

 		hlist_del(&gwj->list);
 		cgw_unregister_filter(gwj);
-		kfree(gwj);
+		kmem_cache_free(cgw_cache, gwj);
 		err = 0;
 		break;
 	}
--
1.8.1.2