[PATCH 38/72] can: gw: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Apr 18 09:16:23 UTC 2013


3.5.7.11 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn>

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





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