[PATCH 3/3] staging: bcm: fix memory leak in Bcmchar.c file

Dan Carpenter error27 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 08:28:57 UTC 2011


On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 09:06:50PM -0400, Kevin McKinney wrote:
> commit dc35d7521677c48e09bf0cbe4ace8f3e3e93d4ca
> Author: Kevin McKinney <kmckinney at MegaMachine.(none)>
> Date:   Tue Aug 9 20:36:11 2011 -0400
> 
>     Staging: bcm: Fix memory leak reported during compile.

Also put a blank line here between the title and the changelog.  If
there is no blank line, then it breaks a bunch of git scripts such as
"git log --pretty=oneline" (Ie. Linus's short log).

>     This patch is to fix a potential memory leak were temp_buff buffer
>     is not being freed when a certain condition is true.
>     Signed-off-by: Kevin McKinney <klmckinney1 at gmail.com>

Sorry it seems like a lot of criticism of the miscellaneous process
stuff which is not actually code.  But that's how it gets once a
thousand people start working on the same project.  Each kernel
release has over a thousand contributors these days.

$ git log v2.6.39..v3.0 | grep ^Author | sort | uniq | wc -l
1259

regards,
dan carpenter




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