Re: [PATCH] gdrom: fix a memory leak bug

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Sat Dec 29 2018 - 10:22:32 EST


On 12/26/18 7:15 PM, Wenwen Wang wrote:
> In probe_gdrom(), the buffer pointed by 'gd.cd_info' is allocated through
> kzalloc() and is used to hold the information of the gdrom device. To
> register and unregister the device, the pointer 'gd.cd_info' is passed to
> the functions register_cdrom() and unregister_cdrom(), respectively.
> However, this buffer is not freed after it is used, which can cause a
> memory leak bug.
>
> This patch simply frees the buffer 'gd.cd_info' in exit_gdrom() to fix the
> above issue.

Applied, thanks.

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Jens Axboe