Re: [PATCH] tty: ipwireless: fix memory leak in do_go_offline()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 01:00:36PM +0100, David Sterba wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 11:40:58AM +0800, Qingfang Deng wrote:
> > The ppp_channel is allocated and registered in do_go_online(). But when
> > the channel is unregistered in do_go_offline(), the driver forgets to
> > release its memory. This leads to a memory leak each time the network
> > goes online and then offline.
> > 
> > Fix this by adding a kfree call after unregistering the channel.
> > 
> > Fixes: 099dc4fb6265 ("ipwireless: driver for PC Card 3G/UMTS modem")
> > Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng <dqfext@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks, but the driver is going to be deleted.
> 

Great, can you send a patch to do that?

thanks,

greg k-h