Re: [stable] [patch 031/104] PCI: prevent duplicate slot names

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:10:39PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I found a memory leak that I introduced with the below patch.
> 
> I sent the patch to Jesse a few days ago, but he hasn't pushed it
> upstream yet.
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/2187/match=stop+leaking
> 
> I did Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx on it, but I'm guessing that since
> it's not upstream yet, you guys never saw it.
> 
> Anyhow, please pick it up for this round of .27-stable, else
> we'll get a memory leak (while trying to work-around the
> duplicate slot name issue).

As much as I hate it, I really need to see the patch in Linus's tree
before I can take it into -stable.

So Jesse, can you please push this to Linus as soon as possible?

Alex, thanks for letting me know about this.

greg k-h
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