Re: [PATCH] thermal/drivers/cpuidle_cooling: Fix use after error

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Sun Mar 21 2021 - 23:30:47 EST


On 19-03-21, 21:25, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> When the function successfully finishes it logs an information about
> the registration of the cooling device and use its name to build the
> message. Unfortunately it was freed right before:
>
> drivers/thermal/cpuidle_cooling.c:218 __cpuidle_cooling_register()
> warn: 'name' was already freed.
>
> Fix this by freeing after the message happened.
>
> Fixes: 6fd1b186d900 ("thermal/drivers/cpuidle_cooling: Use device name instead of auto-numbering")

Why not merge this with the Fixes patch itself since it isn't there in Linus's
tree yet ?

Or is your branch strictly immutable ?

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viresh