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Message-ID: <20190503074041.GA4686@vmlxhi-102.adit-jv.com>
Date:   Fri, 3 May 2019 09:40:41 +0200
From:   Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@...adit-jv.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@...rochip.com>,
        <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Shvetsov <andrey.shvetsov@....de>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@...amocchi.jp>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        Marcin Ciupak <marcin.s.ciupak@...il.com>,
        Suresh Udipi <sudipi@...adit-jv.com>,
        Eugeniu Rosca <roscaeugeniu@...il.com>,
        Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@...adit-jv.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: most: cdev: fix chrdev_region leak in mod_exit

On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 07:39:20PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 09:23:43PM +0200, Eugeniu Rosca wrote:
> > From: Suresh Udipi <sudipi@...adit-jv.com>
> > 
> > It looks like v4.18-rc1 commit [0] which upstreams mld-1.8.0
> > commit [1] missed to fix the memory leak in mod_exit function.
> > 
> > Do it now.
> > 
> > [0] aba258b7310167 ("staging: most: cdev: fix chrdev_region leak")
> > [1] https://github.com/microchip-ais/linux/commit/a2d8f7ae7ea381
> >     ("staging: most: cdev: fix leak for chrdev_region")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Suresh Udipi <sudipi@...adit-jv.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@...adit-jv.com>
> > Acked-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@...rochip.com>
> 
> In the future, please use the "correct" way to mark a fixup patch.  For
> this, it would be:
> Fixes: aba258b73101 ("staging: most: cdev: fix chrdev_region leak")
> 
> I'll go add it, and the needed stable tag to the patch when applying it.

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll follow it next time.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

-- 
Best Regards,
Eugeniu.

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