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staging: slicoss: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree()

Freeing netdev without free_netdev() leads to net, tx leaks.
I might lead to dereferencing freed pointer.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

@@
struct net_device* dev;
@@

-kfree(dev)
+free_netdev(dev)

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

authored by

Vasiliy Kulikov and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
20caa14c c4711c3a

+1 -1
+1 -1
drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
··· 3233 3233 slic_global.num_slic_cards--; 3234 3234 slic_card_cleanup(card); 3235 3235 } 3236 - kfree(dev); 3236 + free_netdev(dev); 3237 3237 pci_release_regions(pcidev); 3238 3238 } 3239 3239