netdev - Re: [PATCH -next] openvswitch: Use kmem_cache

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jan 2014 09:17:11 -0500
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
Cc:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] openvswitch: Use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:13 AM, Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com> wrote:
> 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>

Good catch, thanks.

I'll let David pick this up directly since I just flushed my patch queue.

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
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