linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Don't leak choice names during parsing

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNARfW9+RgDCKK_9SZE_n9ShPZDcEvqi2H_jKKUyFVj1BRg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:12:24 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Don't leak choice names during parsing

2018-02-20 20:40 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>:
> The named choice is not used in the kernel tree, but if it were used,
> it would not be freed.
>
> The intention of the named choice can be seen in the log of
> commit 5a1aa8a1aff6 ("kconfig: add named choice group").
>
> There is room for argument if this is useful in practice, but anyway
> I am fixing the memory leak.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>


Applied to linux-kbuild/kconfig.




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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada