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Message-ID: <CAM9d7cjx04RFjE6x+09mh7SjVWRiB46czYGWenVzf=LaKCrqSA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 8 Oct 2023 22:21:49 -0700
From:   Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:     Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@...il.com>
Cc:     yangyicong@...ilicon.com, jonathan.cameron@...wei.com,
        peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        jolsa@...nel.org, irogers@...gle.com, adrian.hunter@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf hisi-ptt: Fix memory leak in lseek failure handling

On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 9:48 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 12:27 AM Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > In the previous code, there was a memory leak issue where the previously
> > allocated memory was not freed upon a failed lseek operation. This patch
> > addresses the problem by releasing the old memory before returning -errno
> > in case of a lseek failure. This ensures that memory is properly managed
> > and avoids potential memory leaks.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@...il.com>
>
> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>

Applied to perf-tools-next, thanks!

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