[PATCH] staging: most: cdev: fix chrdev_region leak in mod_exit

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu May 2 17:39:20 UTC 2019


On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 09:23:43PM +0200, Eugeniu Rosca wrote:
> From: Suresh Udipi <sudipi at jp.adit-jv.com>
> 
> It looks like v4.18-rc1 commit [0] which upstreams mld-1.8.0
> commit [1] missed to fix the memory leak in mod_exit function.
> 
> Do it now.
> 
> [0] aba258b7310167 ("staging: most: cdev: fix chrdev_region leak")
> [1] https://github.com/microchip-ais/linux/commit/a2d8f7ae7ea381
>     ("staging: most: cdev: fix leak for chrdev_region")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Udipi <sudipi at jp.adit-jv.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca at de.adit-jv.com>
> Acked-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm at microchip.com>

In the future, please use the "correct" way to mark a fixup patch.  For
this, it would be:
Fixes: aba258b73101 ("staging: most: cdev: fix chrdev_region leak")

I'll go add it, and the needed stable tag to the patch when applying it.

thanks,

greg k-h


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