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Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Potential memory leaks in reg.c

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I'm trying to learn how the code works so I'm reading through it line
by line. I have seen so many memory leaks in my days so I know where
to look ;)
They are indeed obscure since we need an error to actually trigger
them but I thought I might as well share the info when I found them.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 19:12 +0100, Ola Olsson wrote:
>> The first leak occurs when entering the default case
>> in the switch for the initiator in set_regdom.
>> The second leaks a platform_device struct if the
>> platform registration in regulatory_init succeeds but
>> the sub sequent regulatory hint fails due to no memory.
>
> Applied, thanks. How are you finding these?? They seems so obscure :)
>
> johannes
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