Re: [PATCH][RESEND] static code analysis from cppcheck reports:

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c:673]:
>   (error) Memory leak: sector_buffer
>
> sector_buffer is not being kfree'd on each call to
> broadsheet_spiflash_rewrite_sector(), so free it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

So you can make the box go OOM by repeatedly writing to the
loadstore_waveform device attribute file?
Do we want this applied to -stable?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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