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

[Colin Ian King]

On 12/01/15 18:02, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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?

..well, not quickly.

> Do we want this applied to -stable?
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
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> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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