Hi Dinghao,
On Sun, 2021-01-10 at 11:50 +0100, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > When kmalloc() fails, tmp_tfm allocated by
> > crypto_alloc_shash() has not been freed, which
> > leads to memleak.
In the future, please conform to Documentation/process/submitting-
patches.rst:
- The body of the explanation, line wrapped at 75 columns, which will
be copied to the permanent changelog to describe this patch.
>
> Do any Linux developers care for the following aspects?
>
> * Imperative wordings for change descriptions
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=2ff90100ace886895e4fbb2850b8d5e49d931ed6#n89
>
> * Usage of the term “memory leak” (instead of an abbreviation)
In general I agree, but this is a really small, obvious bug fix.
Assuming Dinghao is fine with my updating the patch description, I'll
fix it.
Mimi
