netdev - [PATCH 1/2 net-next] net/ncsi: use kfree

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Message-ID: <20180308093604.GC16525@mwanda>
Date:   Thu, 8 Mar 2018 12:36:04 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@...dozajonas.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2 net-next] net/ncsi: use kfree_skb() instead of kfree()

We're supposed to use kfree_skb() to free these sk_buffs.

Fixes: 955dc68cb9b2 ("net/ncsi: Add generic netlink family")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
index d4201665a580..b73239b76349 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static int ncsi_pkg_info_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info)
 	hdr = genlmsg_put(skb, info->snd_portid, info->snd_seq,
 			  &ncsi_genl_family, 0, NCSI_CMD_PKG_INFO);
 	if (!hdr) {
-		kfree(skb);
+		kfree_skb(skb);
 		return -EMSGSIZE;
 	}
 
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static int ncsi_pkg_info_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info)
 
 err:
 	genlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr);
-	kfree(skb);
+	kfree_skb(skb);
 	return rc;
 }