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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>,
	Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Staging; Don't leak 'pstAddIndication' in CmHost.c::StoreCmControlResponseMessage()
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:52:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120209175217.GA13959@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1201242346380.27508@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:47:27PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> We allocate memory for 'pstAddIndication' with kmalloc() in
> drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c::StoreCmControlResponseMessage() and then
> neglect to free it on a number of exit paths from that function.
> 
> This could probably be resolved cleaner/nicer, but this file needs a
> serious overhaul in any case, so I opted for just fixing the problem
> as directly as I could and then we can clean it up generally
> later... This at least makes it stop bleeding..
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c |   27 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)


This patch no longer applies, care to redo it against the latest
linux-next tree?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-09 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-24 22:44 [PATCH 0/2] Staging: Style cleanup and mem leak fixes for drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c Jesper Juhl
2012-01-24 22:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] Staging; bcm/CmHost.c: Style cleanup Jesper Juhl
2012-01-24 23:13   ` Joe Perches
2012-01-24 23:17     ` Jesper Juhl
2012-01-25  6:26   ` Dan Carpenter
2012-01-27 23:43     ` Jesper Juhl
2012-01-28  7:24       ` Dan Carpenter
2012-01-24 22:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] Staging; Don't leak 'pstAddIndication' in CmHost.c::StoreCmControlResponseMessage() Jesper Juhl
2012-02-09 17:52   ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-02-09 22:33     ` Jesper Juhl
2012-02-10 18:00       ` Staging: bcm: " Greg KH
2012-02-11 23:54         ` Jesper Juhl
2012-02-14  4:05           ` Greg KH

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