linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] menuconfig: Fix memory leak introduced by jump keys feature

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Date:	Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:54:32 +0200
From:	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@...e.fr>
To:	Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.de>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>,
	Dirk Gouders <gouders@...bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] menuconfig: Fix memory leak introduced by jump keys
 feature

Benjamin, All,

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:13:50AM -0400, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> Fixes the memory leak of struct jump_key allocated in get_prompt_str()

Queued into:
https://git.gitorious.org/linux-kconfig/linux-kconfig.git yem-kconfig-rc-fixes

Although this is strictly a bug fix, I would lean toward waiting for the
next merge window to open before pulling this in.

We can't really say that the kconfig frontends are critical, long-running
processes. If they leak a bit of memory, that's not too cumbersome, I
think. OTOH, I think breaking the frontends so close to the end of the
-rc cycle is a bit dangerous (heck, I would not like to be part of the
cause of a new flaming, just for this! ;-) )

So, unless Michal really wants to pull this one and push it to Linus
before he cuts v3.9 final, I'll merge this later in my -for-next branch.

Thank you!

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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