Re: [PATCH] staging: most: cdev: fix chrdev_region leak in mod_exit

From: Eugeniu Rosca
Date: Fri May 03 2019 - 03:41:21 EST


On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 07:39:20PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 09:23:43PM +0200, Eugeniu Rosca wrote:
> > From: Suresh Udipi <sudipi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > It looks like v4.18-rc1 commit [0] which upstreams mld-1.8.0
> > commit [1] missed to fix the memory leak in mod_exit function.
> >
> > Do it now.
> >
> > [0] aba258b7310167 ("staging: most: cdev: fix chrdev_region leak")
> > [1] https://github.com/microchip-ais/linux/commit/a2d8f7ae7ea381
> > ("staging: most: cdev: fix leak for chrdev_region")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Suresh Udipi <sudipi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In the future, please use the "correct" way to mark a fixup patch. For
> this, it would be:
> Fixes: aba258b73101 ("staging: most: cdev: fix chrdev_region leak")
>
> I'll go add it, and the needed stable tag to the patch when applying it.

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll follow it next time.

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

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Best Regards,
Eugeniu.