Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Staging: fbtft: fix memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 08:43:05PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 04:59:31PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> > ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> > 
> > > From 5bdea6060618cfcf1459dca137e89aee038ac8b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 22:09:45 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH] Staging: fbtft: fix memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc
> > 
> > In fbtft_framebuffer_alloc the error handling path should take care of
> > releasing frame buffer after it is allocated via framebuffer_alloc, too.
> > Therefore, in two failure cases the goto destination is changed to
> > address this issue.
> > 
> > Fixes: c296d5f9957c ("staging: fbtft: core support")
> > Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@gmail.com>
> > Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190930030949.28615-1-navid.emamdoost@gmail.com
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> Conflicts due to 333c7b940526b ("staging: fbtft: Fixes some alignment
> issues - Style"). Fixed up and queued for 4.14-4.4.

Thanks for fixing this one, and the other failures up.

greg k-h