linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cxgb4: fix memory leak on txq

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Date:   Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:28:13 +0000
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     hariprasad@...lsio.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxgb4: fix memory leak on txq_info

On 25/11/16 21:10, David Miller wrote:
> From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:02:44 +0000
> 
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>
>> Currently if txq_info->uldtxq cannot be allocated then
>> txq_info->txq is being kfree'd (which is redundant because it
>> is NULL) instead of txq_info. Fix this by instead kfree'ing
>> txq_info.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Applied, but Colin you _really_ need to start properly marking your
> networking patch submissions by indicating in the subject which
> tree your change is for.  In this case I figured out it was
> net-next, but you must say this explicitly in the Subject line
> via "Subject: [PATCH net-next] ..."
> 
> Thanks.
> 
Understood, will do next time, apologies for that.

Colin