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From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppdev: don't print a free'd string
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 22:13:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5849DAEE.9050408@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161206105138.GA10275@kroah.com>

On Tuesday 06 December 2016 10:51 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 04:23:55PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>
>> A previous fix of a memory leak now prints the string 'name'
>> that was previously free'd.  Fix this by free'ing the string
>> at the end of the function and adding an error exit path for
>> the error conditions.
>>
>> CoverityScan CID#1384523 ("Use after free")
>>
>> Fixes: 2bd362d5f45c1 ("ppdev: fix memory leak")
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/char/ppdev.c | 13 ++++++++-----
>>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> Sudip, any thoughts?
>

Hi Greg,

Sorry for the late reply. It looks good.

Acked-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>


Regards
Sudip

      reply	other threads:[~2016-12-08 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-02 16:23 [PATCH] ppdev: don't print a free'd string Colin King
2016-12-06 10:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-12-08 22:13   ` Sudip Mukherjee [this message]

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