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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/tty/tty_io.c: fix a potential memleak at
 do_tty_write()
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:26:42 -0700
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 08:23:54PM +0800, Jeff Liu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Looks there is a potential memory leak at drivers/tty/tty_io.c: do_tty_write().
> It did allocate a buf_chunk if tty->write_cnt < chunk, however, buf_chunk was not
> freed after the writing is done.  Below tiny patch could fix it.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jeff
> 

Thanks for the patch, but can you resend it with a signed-off-by: line
as described in Documentation/SubmittingPatches so that we can properly
apply the patch?

thanks,

greg k-h