[patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] Btrfs: use kmem_cache_free when freeing entry in inode cache

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From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>

This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

===============

commit c3f4a1685bb87e59c886ee68f7967eae07d4dffa upstream.

The free space entries are allocated using kmem_cache_zalloc(),
through __btrfs_add_free_space(), therefore we should use
kmem_cache_free() and not kfree() to avoid any confusion and
any potential problem. Looking at the kfree() definition at
mm/slab.c it has the following comment:

  /*
   * (...)
   *
   * Don't free memory not originally allocated by kmalloc()
   * or you will run into trouble.
   */

So better be safe and use kmem_cache_free().

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/btrfs/inode-map.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode-map.c b/fs/btrfs/inode-map.c
index 2c66ddbbe670..0389e90eec33 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode-map.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode-map.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ void btrfs_unpin_free_ino(struct btrfs_root *root)
 		__btrfs_add_free_space(ctl, info->offset, count);
 free:
 		rb_erase(&info->offset_index, rbroot);
-		kfree(info);
+		kmem_cache_free(btrfs_free_space_cachep, info);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.5.0

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