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staging: otus: 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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

authored by

Vasiliy Kulikov and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
2166abeb b37e0c61

+1 -1
+1 -1
drivers/staging/otus/usbdrv.c
··· 690 690 691 691 kfree(macp); 692 692 693 - kfree(dev); 693 + free_netdev(dev); 694 694 695 695 } 696 696