This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    can: gw: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()

to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     can-gw-use-kmem_cache_free-instead-of-kfree.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 3480a2125923e4b7a56d79efc76743089bf273fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:16:04 +0800
Subject: can: gw: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()

From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>

commit 3480a2125923e4b7a56d79efc76743089bf273fc upstream.

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

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 net/can/gw.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/net/can/gw.c
+++ b/net/can/gw.c
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ static int cgw_notifier(struct notifier_
                        if (gwj->src.dev == dev || gwj->dst.dev == dev) {
                                hlist_del(&gwj->list);
                                cgw_unregister_filter(gwj);
-                               kfree(gwj);
+                               kmem_cache_free(cgw_cache, gwj);
                        }
                }
        }
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ static void cgw_remove_all_jobs(void)
        hlist_for_each_entry_safe(gwj, n, nx, &cgw_list, list) {
                hlist_del(&gwj->list);
                cgw_unregister_filter(gwj);
-               kfree(gwj);
+               kmem_cache_free(cgw_cache, gwj);
        }
 }
 
@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ static int cgw_remove_job(struct sk_buff
 
                hlist_del(&gwj->list);
                cgw_unregister_filter(gwj);
-               kfree(gwj);
+               kmem_cache_free(cgw_cache, gwj);
                err = 0;
                break;
        }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 
[email protected] are

queue-3.8/can-gw-use-kmem_cache_free-instead-of-kfree.patch
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