netdev - Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak

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Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 2016 21:23:02 +1100
From:	Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>
To:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak

Hi Sudip,

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
<sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:28:37AM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:03:35AM +1100, Julian Calaby wrote:
>> >> Hi Sudip,
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
>> >> <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> wrote:
>> >> > On error we jumped to the error label and returned the error code but we
>> >> > missed releasing sinfo.
>> >> >
>> >> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
>> >>
>> >> Should the From: and Signed-off-by: email addresses be the same?
>> >
>> > I think 2 years back I had a long discussion with Greg about this and
>> > since then I al submitting patches like this. A small summayg of the
>> > problem from that discussion:
>> >
>> > "we have strict DMARC check for the corporate mail server. DMARC =
>> > domain based message authentication.
>> > So the mail i sent reached all the list subscriber from a different
>> > server than our designated server, and as a result it is marked as spam
>> > in many places and I have already received a few complaints regarding
>> > that."
>>
>> You can add a separate "From:" line to the beginning of the commit log
>> and git will use it then commiting the patch. I didn't find any
>> documention but it's easy to do and should solve this.
>
> Documentation is not needed. :)
> I have done that couple of time.
> I will resend this patch with the extra From: line.

Don't forget to include the Fixes: tag.

Thanks,

-- 
Julian Calaby

Email: julian.calaby@...il.com
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