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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wmi: fix a memory leak in wmi_notify_debug
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:51:00 +0100
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Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:30:45AM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> When acpi_evaluate_object() is passed ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER,
> the caller must kfree the returned buffer if AE_OK is returned.
> 
> The callers of wmi_get_event_data() pass ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER,
> and thus must check its return value before accessing
> or kfree() on the buffer.
> 
> This patch adds return value checking for wmi_get_event_data()
> and adds a missing kfree(obj) in the end of wmi_notify_debug

Applied, thanks.

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