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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible memory leak in request_firmware()
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:56:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090710225615.GA32643@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tnxskh4nog0.fsf@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:49:35PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:17:00PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >> I get a couple kmemleak reports like below which I think happen on the
> >> failure path (-ENOENT) of a request_firmware() call:
> >
> > Hm, can you send me the final version of this patch, it seemed to go
> > through a few different versions, with a signed-off-by line?
> 
> It was merged as commit 0f2f2221b4ad8.

Ah, nice, I don't have to worry about it then, thanks.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-10 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-07 15:17 Possible memory leak in request_firmware() Catalin Marinas
2009-07-07 17:01 ` Cornelia Huck
2009-07-07 21:50   ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-08  4:38     ` Ming Lei
2009-07-08  6:28       ` David Woodhouse
2009-07-08  8:42         ` Ming Lei
2009-07-08  8:56           ` David Woodhouse
2009-07-08  0:18 ` Ming Lei
2009-07-10 17:36 ` Greg KH
2009-07-10 22:49   ` Catalin Marinas
2009-07-10 22:56     ` Greg KH [this message]

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