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Date:	Wed, 8 Jan 2014 18:13:14 +0800
From:	Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
To:	jesse@...ira.com, pshelar@...ira.com, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn, dev@...nvswitch.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -next] openvswitch: Use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()

From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>

memory allocated by kmem_cache_alloc() should be freed using
kmem_cache_free(), not kfree().

Fixes: e298e5057006 ('openvswitch: Per cpu flow stats.')
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
---
 net/openvswitch/flow_table.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c
index b430d42..c58a0fe 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_alloc(bool percpu_stats)
 	}
 	return flow;
 err:
-	kfree(flow);
+	kmem_cache_free(flow_cache, flow);
 	return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 }
 

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