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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mem: fix resource leak
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:34:12 +0200
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22/10/2018 14:57, Anatoly Burakov:
> Segment preallocation code allocates an array of structures on the
> heap but does not free the memory afterwards. Fix it by freeing it
> at the end of the function, and changing control flow to always go
> through that code path.
> 
> Fixes: 1dd342d0fdc4 ("mem: improve segment list preallocation")
> 
> Coverity ID: 323524
> 
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org

The right order for these tags is:

Coverity issue: 323524
Fixes: 1dd342d0fdc4 ("mem: improve segment list preallocation")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     Not sure if stable release script picks up fixes for commits intended
>     for stable releases?

What do you mean? Is this patch for master?
The process is to Cc: stable, then it is backported.
The script check-git-log.sh helps you to correctly set Cc: stable tag.