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Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2023 09:40:00 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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        Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@huawei.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 097/338] wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 06:14:35PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-01-16 at 15:49 +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@huawei.com>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 13e5afd3d773c6fc6ca2b89027befaaaa1ea7293 ]
> > 
> > When register_netdevice() failed in ieee80211_if_add(), ndev->tstats
> > isn't released. Fix it.
> > 
> 
> Please drop this wherever you still can - we just reverted it because it
> was actually based on broken analysis.

Thanks, will drop it from 5.4 and older queues.

greg k-h