RE: [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Correct a memory leak

[Mario.Limonciello]

Darren,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darren Hart [mailto:dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2018 3:52 PM
> To: Limonciello, Mario
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko; LKML; platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Correct a memory leak
> 
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 01:01:52PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > ACPI buffers were being allocated but never freed.
> >
> > Reported-by: Pinzhen Xu <pinzhen.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Thanks Mario and Pinzhen, both queued. That's an easy one to miss, the usage not
> being particularly obvious.
> 

This cropped up and is fixed by that patch:
https://github.com/dell/libsmbios/issues/63

Given the impact and how small the patch is, I think it might be good if this can come to 4.19-rcX if possible.
Thoughts?

I suspect this one might be the same issue too:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627609