This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nfsd: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nfsd-use-kmem_cache_free-instead-of-kfree.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 2c44a23471d048118e49b616d08df0729cdbd9f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:15:31 +0800
Subject: nfsd: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()
From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 2c44a23471d048118e49b616d08df0729cdbd9f1 upstream.
memory allocated by kmem_cache_alloc() should be freed using
kmem_cache_free(), not kfree().
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ kmem_cache *slab)
min_stateid = 0;
return stid;
out_free:
- kfree(stid);
+ kmem_cache_free(slab, stid);
return NULL;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/nfsd-use-kmem_cache_free-instead-of-kfree.patch
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