linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fs: affs: fix a memory leak in affs

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Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 12:34:59 -0500
From:   Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@...il.com>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Navid Emamdoost <emamd001@....edu>,
        Stephen McCamant <smccaman@....edu>, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: affs: fix a memory leak in affs_remount

Hi Markus, thanks for your suggestions for improving the quality of
the patch. At the moment I prefer first get a confirmation from
contributors about the leak and then work on any possible improvements
for the patch.

Thanks,
Navid.

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 3:31 AM Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de> wrote:
>
> > The allocated memory for new_opts is only released if pare_options fail.
>
> Can the following wording be nicer?
>
>   The allocated memory for the buffer “new_opts” will be released
>   only if a call of the function “parse_options” failed.
>
>
> > The release for new_opts is added.
>
> * How do you think about the change possibility to delete questionable
>   source code here?
>
> * Would you like to complete the data processing for corresponding options
>   any more?
>
>
> >       -- fix a type in title, …
>
> Please avoid typos also in your version comments.
>
>
> > ---
>
> I suggest to replace this second delimiter by a blank line.
>
> Regards,
> Markus



-- 
Navid.