linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wmi: fix a memory leak in wmi_notify

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Message-Id: <201006281455.28599.trenn@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:55:28 +0200
From:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
To:	Axel Lin <axel.lin@...il.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Carlos Corbacho <carlos@...angeworlds.co.uk>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wmi: fix a memory leak in wmi_notify_debug

On Monday 28 June 2010 03:30:45 Axel Lin wrote:
> When acpi_evaluate_object() is passed ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER,
> the caller must kfree the returned buffer if AE_OK is returned.
Oops, I forgot to free the buffer...
Thanks!

Matthew, can you queue this up, please.
It's a safe memleak fix (if wmi driver is loaded with debug_event=1).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>

      Thomas
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