linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RESEND] static code analysis from cppcheck reports:

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:03:32 +0000
From:	Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
CC:	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RESEND] static code analysis from cppcheck reports:

On 12/01/15 18:02, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>
>> [drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c:673]:
>>   (error) Memory leak: sector_buffer
>>
>> sector_buffer is not being kfree'd on each call to
>> broadsheet_spiflash_rewrite_sector(), so free it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> So you can make the box go OOM by repeatedly writing to the
> loadstore_waveform device attribute file?

..well, not quickly.

> Do we want this applied to -stable?
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                 -- Linus Torvalds
> 

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