linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: fix a memory leak in rtw_mp

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Date:   Thu, 9 Dec 2021 17:28:29 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@....com>
Cc:     Larry.Finger@...inger.net, phil@...lpotter.co.uk,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, straube.linux@...il.com,
        martin@...ser.cx, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: fix a memory leak in rtw_mp_pwrtrk()

On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 09:25:15PM +0800, Jianglei Nie wrote:
> Line 5968 (#1) allocates a memory chunk for input by kmalloc().
> Line 5973 (#2), line 5989 (#4) and line 5994 (#5) free the input
> before the function returns while line 5986 (#3) forget to free it,
> which will lead to a memory leak. This bug influences all stable
> versions from 5.15.1 to 5.15.7.
> 

This code was all deleted in September.  Please work against
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git#staging-next
or linux-next.

regards,
dan carpenter