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Date:   Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:52:26 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Pradeep Kumar Chitrapu <pradeepc@...eaurora.org>,
        Ganesh Sesetti <gseset@...eaurora.org>,
        Karthikeyan Periyasamy <periyasa@...eaurora.org>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>, ath11k@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] ath11k: fix memory leak on reg_info

Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:

> Currently a return path is leaking the previously allocate reg_info. Fix
> this by exiting via the return path mem_free.  Since the return value ret
> is defaulted to 0, there is no need to re-assign ret to the 0 before
> the goto.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak")
> Fixes: d5c65159f289 ("ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

b5316db229d5 ath11k: fix memory leak on reg_info

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11289073/

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