This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
msi-wmi: Fix memory leak
to the 3.4-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-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From b2fd07f1a7d242f1f53711546cbd5f8fecba8891 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxim Mikityanskiy <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:31:31 +0200
Subject: msi-wmi: Fix memory leak
From: Maxim Mikityanskiy <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Anisse Astier <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Cc: Qiang Huang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
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 [email protected] are
queue-3.4/msi-wmi-fix-memory-leak.patch
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