The patch titled kfifo: fix a memory leak in dma example has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kfifo-fix-a-memory-leak-in-dma-example.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: kfifo: fix a memory leak in dma example From: Andrea Righi <arighi@xxxxxxxxxxx> We use a dynamically allocated kfifo in the dma example, so we need to free it when unloading the module. Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- samples/kfifo/dma-example.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN samples/kfifo/dma-example.c~kfifo-fix-a-memory-leak-in-dma-example samples/kfifo/dma-example.c --- a/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c~kfifo-fix-a-memory-leak-in-dma-example +++ a/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c @@ -105,9 +105,7 @@ static int __init example_init(void) static void __exit example_exit(void) { -#ifdef DYNAMIC - kfifo_free(&test); -#endif + kfifo_free(&fifo); } module_init(example_init); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from arighi@xxxxxxxxxxx are kfifo-implement-missing-__kfifo_skip_r.patch kfifo-add-kfifo_skip-testcase.patch kfifo-add-explicit-error-checking-in-byte-stream-example.patch kfifo-fix-kernel-bug-in-dma-example.patch kfifo-fix-a-memory-leak-in-dma-example.patch kfifo-add-explicit-error-checking-in-all-the-examples.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html