linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpufreq: powerenv: Fix memory leak

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Date:	Thu, 02 Jun 2016 21:08:08 +1000
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpufreq: powerenv: Fix memory leak

On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 16:04 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:

> The policy is copied (unnecessarily) and is never freed. Fix it by just
> getting a reference to the existing policy structure and putting it
> back.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>

When was it broken, always?

Cc: stable ?

cheers