From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
To: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wmi: fix a memory leak in wmi_notify_debug
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:55:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006281455.28599.trenn@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277688645.22992.2.camel@mola>
On Monday 28 June 2010 03:30:45 Axel Lin wrote:
> When acpi_evaluate_object() is passed ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER,
> the caller must kfree the returned buffer if AE_OK is returned.
Oops, I forgot to free the buffer...
Thanks!
Matthew, can you queue this up, please.
It's a safe memleak fix (if wmi driver is loaded with debug_event=1).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-28 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-28 1:30 [PATCH] wmi: fix a memory leak in wmi_notify_debug Axel Lin
2010-06-28 12:55 ` Thomas Renninger [this message]
2010-07-01 13:51 ` Matthew Garrett
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