Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: fix memory leak in rtl_usb_probe

[Navid Emamdoost]

Oh! It's duplicate, thanks for catching that.

On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 11:08 AM Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > In rtl_usb_probe, a new hw is allocated via ieee80211_alloc_hw(). This
> > allocation should be released in case of allocation failure for
> > rtlpriv->usb_data.
> >
> > Fixes: a7959c1394d4 ("rtlwifi: Preallocate USB read buffers and eliminate kalloc in read routine")
>
> Which event did trigger the sending of this patch variant
> after a similar change was integrated already?
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=3f93616951138a598d930dcaec40f2bfd9ce43bb
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191001092047.71E8460A30@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/comment/1331936/
>
> Regards,
> Markus



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Navid.