Re: Suggestion on how to fix "memory leak in snd_ctl_led_register"

[Greg KH]

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:49:22AM +0800, 慕冬亮 wrote:
> Hi kernel developers,
> 
> The root cause of "memory leak in snd_ctl_led_register" [1] is
> unbalanced refcount operations in the device_add function [2]. This
> refcount issue causes struct device_private allocated in
> device_private_init unable to be deallocated, leading to memory leak.
> The details are as follows:

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Great, can you just send a patch to us to resolve the issue?  That's the
easiest way to resolve all of this.

thanks,

greg k-h