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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Correct a memory leak
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 12:14:34PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> Darren,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Darren Hart [mailto:dvhart@infradead.org]
> > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2018 3:52 PM
> > To: Limonciello, Mario
> > Cc: Andy Shevchenko; LKML; platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org;
> > stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Correct a memory leak
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 01:01:52PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > > ACPI buffers were being allocated but never freed.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Pinzhen Xu <pinzhen.xu@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> >
> > Thanks Mario and Pinzhen, both queued. That's an easy one to miss, the usage not
> > being particularly obvious.
> >
>
> This cropped up and is fixed by that patch:
> https://github.com/dell/libsmbios/issues/63
>
> Given the impact and how small the patch is, I think it might be good if this can come to 4.19-rcX if possible.
> Thoughts?
>
> I suspect this one might be the same issue too:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627609


Happy to pull these into fixes for 4.19-rcX. Queued to Fixes.

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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center

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