linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] bcma: Fix memory leak for internally-handled cores

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Date:   Sat, 21 Aug 2021 13:05:42 +0300
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>
Cc:     <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <zajec5@...il.com>, <hauke@...ke-m.de>, <linville@...driver.com>,
        <wanghaibin.wang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bcma: Fix memory leak for internally-handled cores

Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com> writes:

> On 2021/7/27 10:52, Zenghui Yu wrote:
>> kmemleak reported that dev_name() of internally-handled cores were leaked
>> on driver unbinding. Let's use device_initialize() to take refcounts for
>> them and put_device() to properly free the related stuff.
>
> Could this be picked as a fix for v5.14 (_if_ it does fix something)?

Why should this go to v5.14? Most probably it's too late for v5.14
anyway.

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