[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 003/118] Btrfs: use kmem_cache_free when freeing entry in inode cache
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Aug 12 08:55:05 UTC 2015
3.16.7-ckt16 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana at suse.com>
commit c3f4a1685bb87e59c886ee68f7967eae07d4dffa upstream.
The free space entries are allocated using kmem_cache_zalloc(),
through __btrfs_add_free_space(), therefore we should use
kmem_cache_free() and not kfree() to avoid any confusion and
any potential problem. Looking at the kfree() definition at
mm/slab.c it has the following comment:
/*
* (...)
*
* Don't free memory not originally allocated by kmalloc()
* or you will run into trouble.
*/
So better be safe and use kmem_cache_free().
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana at suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba at suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm at fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
fs/btrfs/inode-map.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode-map.c b/fs/btrfs/inode-map.c
index 888fbe19079f..f25c68d84811 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode-map.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode-map.c
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ void btrfs_unpin_free_ino(struct btrfs_root *root)
__btrfs_add_free_space(ctl, info->offset, count);
free:
rb_erase(&info->offset_index, rbroot);
- kfree(info);
+ kmem_cache_free(btrfs_free_space_cachep, info);
}
}
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