On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 02:00:45PM -0600, Ahmed Tamrawi wrote: > Bug Report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89101 > Linux Version [3.17-rc1] That's a very old kernel version. > Configuration: Default configuration for x86 > > > Function (reserve_range) in file (drivers/pnp/system.c) allocates > pointer (regionid) on line (32) and passes it to function > (__request_region) through the macros: (request_region) at line (38) > or (request_mem_region) at line (40). However, if the resource (res) > is allocated through (__request_region) function, then the pointer > (res->name) points to the allocated pointer (regionid). Then, there is > no way in function (free_resource) or function (release_resource) to > free the pointer (regionid) or (res->name). Thus, causing a potential > memory leak! How does this relate to the mailing list you sent this to? Please send a patch for the issue against Linus's latest kernel tree to help explain things better. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
