Re: [PATCH] skd: Use kmem_cache_free

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Mon Oct 09 2017 - 13:34:03 EST


On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 03:00 +0530, Himanshu Jha wrote:
> Use kmem_cache_free instead of kfree for freeing the memory previously
> allocated with kmem_cache_zalloc/kmem_cache_alloc/kmem_cache_node.
>
> Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/block/skd_main.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/skd_main.c b/drivers/block/skd_main.c
> index 7cedb42..64d0fc1 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/skd_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/skd_main.c
> @@ -2604,7 +2604,7 @@ static void *skd_alloc_dma(struct skd_device *skdev, struct kmem_cache *s,
> return NULL;
> *dma_handle = dma_map_single(dev, buf, s->size, dir);
> if (dma_mapping_error(dev, *dma_handle)) {
> - kfree(buf);
> + kmem_cache_free(s, buf);
> buf = NULL;
> }
> return buf;

Thanks for this patch.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>