linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] staging: some memory-related patches

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Date:   Mon, 6 Jun 2022 08:11:56 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     xkernel.wang@...mail.com
Cc:     linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] staging: some memory-related patches

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 02:56:47PM +0800, xkernel.wang@...mail.com wrote:
> From: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@...mail.com>
> 
> This is a collection about some memory-related bugs fixing.
> In brief, there are two types about them.
> First is some memory allocation functions are called without proper
> checking, which may result in wrong memory access in the subsequent
> running or some else.
> Second is lacking proper error handling that does not release some
> allocated resources, which may result in memory leak problems.
> 
> These issuses are similar, so they are put in this series together.
> Note that most of them are sent as each separate patch before, this series
> rebased them to the lasted version. While there are some inherent logical
> relationships between 03~05/11~12.

Can you please look at Documentation/process/researcher-guidelines.rst
and update the changelog texts of these commits to provide the extra
information that this document requires of changes like this?

thanks,

greg k-h