Re: [PATCH] net: mvpp2: fix possible memory leak

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Sun Nov 02 2014 - 01:19:49 EST


On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 11:24:45PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Sudip Mukherjee,
>
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2014 16:59:34 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > we are allocating memory using kzalloc for struct mvpp2_prs_entry,
> > but later when we are getting error we were just returning the error
> > value without releasing the memory.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > hi,
> > i could not build test after modifying it. I tried to compile using
> > multi_v7_defconfig , but the cross compiler i have is not able to
> > compile it and giving sevaral warnings from the assembler.
>
> That seems weird. Which compiler are you using, and which errors were
> you getting?
>
> In any case, it would have been good to Cc the authors of the driver.
yes, i should have. Ccing now. better late than never.
i am using gcc version 4.3.2 (Sourcery G++ Lite 2008q3-72).

thanks
sudip

>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
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