netdev - [PATCH] bpa10x: free sk_buff with kfree

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Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:05:14 +0200 (EET)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, marcel@...tmann.org
Subject: [PATCH] bpa10x: free sk_buff with kfree_skb

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, David Miller wrote:

> 2) Couple places trying to pass sk_buff to kfree() instead of
>    kfree_skb().  Fixed by Sergio Luis

I tried with coccinelle and found one more of these, though my
other attempts with it haven't been all that successful... 


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[PATCH] bpa10x: free sk_buff with kfree_skb

Inspired by Sergio Luis' similar patches, I finally found
a case which is trivial enough that spatch won't choke
on it.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
---
 drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.c b/drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.c
index 32f3a8e..b936d8c 100644
--- a/drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.c
+++ b/drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.c
@@ -443,8 +443,8 @@ static void bpa10x_destruct(struct hci_dev *hdev)
 
 	BT_DBG("%s", hdev->name);
 
-	kfree(data->rx_skb[0]);
-	kfree(data->rx_skb[1]);
+	kfree_skb(data->rx_skb[0]);
+	kfree_skb(data->rx_skb[1]);
 	kfree(data);
 }
 
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