Messages in this thread | | | From | <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Correct a memory leak | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:14:34 +0000 |
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Darren,
> -----Original Message----- > From: Darren Hart [mailto:dvhart@infradead.org] > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2018 3:52 PM > To: Limonciello, Mario > Cc: Andy Shevchenko; LKML; platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org; > stable@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Correct a memory leak > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 01:01:52PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > > ACPI buffers were being allocated but never freed. > > > > Reported-by: Pinzhen Xu <pinzhen.xu@intel.com> > > Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > > Thanks Mario and Pinzhen, both queued. That's an easy one to miss, the usage not > being particularly obvious. >
This cropped up and is fixed by that patch: https://github.com/dell/libsmbios/issues/63
Given the impact and how small the patch is, I think it might be good if this can come to 4.19-rcX if possible. Thoughts?
I suspect this one might be the same issue too: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627609
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