Free memory allocated using kmem_cache_zalloc using kmem_cache_free rather than kfree. The Coccinelle semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: // <smpl> @@ expression x,E,c; @@ x = \(kmem_cache_alloc\|kmem_cache_zalloc\|kmem_cache_alloc_node\)(c,...) ... when != x = E when != &x ?-kfree(x) +kmem_cache_free(c,x) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/rbd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c index b2c98c1..8381c54 100644 --- a/drivers/block/rbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c @@ -1158,7 +1158,7 @@ static const char *rbd_segment_name(struct rbd_device *rbd_dev, u64 offset) if (ret < 0 || ret > CEPH_MAX_OID_NAME_LEN) { pr_err("error formatting segment name for #%llu (%d)\n", segment, ret); - kfree(name); + kmem_cache_free(rbd_segment_name_cache, name); name = NULL; } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html