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Date:   Wed, 19 Aug 2020 23:35:08 +1000
From:   "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@...il.com>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Cc:     Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] libnvdimm: Fix memory leaks in of_pmem.c

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:28 PM Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de> wrote:
>
> > The memory priv->bus_desc.provider_name allocated by kstrdup() is not
> > freed correctly.

Personally I thought his commit message was perfectly fine. A little
unorthodox, but it works.

> How do you think about to choose an imperative wording for
> a corresponding change description?

...but this! This is word salad.

> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=18445bf405cb331117bc98427b1ba6f12418ad17#n151
>
> Regards,
> Markus