Patch "msi-wmi: Fix memory leak" has been added to the 3.8-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    msi-wmi: Fix memory leak

to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     msi-wmi-fix-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 51c94491c82c3d9029f6e87a1a153db321d88e35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxtram95@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:31:31 +0200
Subject: msi-wmi: Fix memory leak

From: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxtram95@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 51c94491c82c3d9029f6e87a1a153db321d88e35 upstream.

Fix memory leak - don't forget to kfree ACPI object when returning from
msi_wmi_notify() after suppressing key event.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxtram95@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


---
 drivers/platform/x86/msi-wmi.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/platform/x86/msi-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/msi-wmi.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static void msi_wmi_notify(u32 value, vo
 				pr_debug("Suppressed key event 0x%X - "
 					 "Last press was %lld us ago\n",
 					 key->code, ktime_to_us(diff));
-				return;
+				goto msi_wmi_notify_exit;
 			}
 			last_pressed[key->code - SCANCODE_BASE] = cur;
 
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ static void msi_wmi_notify(u32 value, vo
 			pr_info("Unknown key pressed - %x\n", eventcode);
 	} else
 		pr_info("Unknown event received\n");
+
+msi_wmi_notify_exit:
 	kfree(response.pointer);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maxtram95@xxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.8/msi-wmi-fix-memory-leak.patch
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