Re: [PATCH] ALSA: mixer_oss: Remove some incorrect kfree_const() usages

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Mon Sep 30 2024 - 04:12:38 EST


On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:17:36 +0200,
Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>
> "assigned" and "assigned->name" are allocated in snd_mixer_oss_proc_write()
> using kmalloc() and kstrdup(), so there is no point in using kfree_const()
> to free these resources.
>
> Switch to the more standard kfree() to free these resources.
>
> This could avoid a memory leak.
>
> Fixes: 454f5ec1d2b7 ("ALSA: mixer: oss: Constify snd_mixer_oss_assign_table definition")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied now. Thanks.


Takashi