On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. It does exist on the latest version (v3.18-rc7) > >> 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? The bug occurs in the drivers side code in pnp/system.c. I thought this is the list to target. I have already posted the bug into linux-kernel mailing list, does that suffice? > > Please send a patch for the issue against Linus's latest kernel tree to > help explain things better. I am not sure where the fix should be, but I can try one. > > thanks, > > greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
