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From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
To: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix memory leak in at_dma_xlate()
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On 27-11-18, 17:06, Richard Genoud wrote:
> The leak was found when opening/closing a serial port a great number of
> time, increasing kmalloc-32 in slabinfo.
> 
> Each time the port was opened, dma_request_slave_channel() was called.
> Then, in at_dma_xlate(), atslave was allocated with devm_kzalloc() and
> never freed. (Well, it was free at module unload, but that's not what we
> want).
> So, here, kzalloc is more suited for the job since it has to be freed in
> atc_free_chan_resources().

Applied, thanks

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~Vinod