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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>
Cc: lidza.louina@gmail.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "staging: dgap: remove unneeded kfree() in dgap_tty_register_ports()"
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 09:11:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140529161101.GA802@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140529070127.GA1347@devel.8.8.4.4>

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 04:01:27PM +0900, Daeseok Youn wrote:
> This reverts commit 0ade4a34fd439d62df46937e8f3e584eb0879579.
> 
> This patch removes kfree for serial_ports in dgap_tty_register_ports()
> if the "brd->printer_ports" allocation fails and serial_ports may be
> freed by calling dgap_tty_uninit() within other patch.
> That patch has an error handling but incomplete cleanup
> so it need to call kfree() for brd->serial_ports in
> dgap_tty_register_ports().
> 
> Conflicts:
> 
> 	drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
> ---
>  drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

-ENOSIGNEDOFFBY :(


      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-29 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-29  7:01 [PATCH] Revert "staging: dgap: remove unneeded kfree() in dgap_tty_register_ports()" Daeseok Youn
2014-05-29 16:11 ` Greg KH [this message]

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