netdev - Re: [PATCH] iwl4965: Fix a memory leak in error handling code of __il4965

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:44:31 +0200
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@....com>, johannes.berg@...el.com,
	emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com, ilw@...ux.intel.com,
	linuxwifi@...el.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwl4965: Fix a memory leak in error handling code of __il4965_up

Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:19:23AM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c
>> index 6656215..fd7b5c7 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c
>> @@ -5577,6 +5577,7 @@ __il4965_up(struct il_priv *il)
>>  	ret = il4965_hw_nic_init(il);
>>  	if (ret) {
>>  		IL_ERR("Unable to init nic\n");
>> +		il_dealloc_bcast_stations(il);
>>  		return ret;
>>  	}
>
> Please do not repost patches so frequent and if you repost
> the unchanged patch mark it so i.e. [PATCH repost].

"repost" just confuses me and creates more work for me. Better to ping
on the original patch and even better is to check patchwork which shows
up-to-date status of wireless patches:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/

-- 
Kalle Valo