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Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpufreq: powerenv: Fix memory leak

From Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpufreq: powerenv: Fix memory leak
Date 2016-06-02 13:30 +0200
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On 02-06-16, 21:08, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 16:04 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> 
> > The policy is copied (unnecessarily) and is never freed. Fix it by just
> > getting a reference to the existing policy structure and putting it
> > back.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> 
> When was it broken, always?
> 
> Cc: stable ?

Its a small memory leak and its not that we will fail on something. So
didn't bother to add those details, but in case they are required:

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+
Fixes: 227942809b52 ("cpufreq: powernv: Restore cpu frequency to policy->cur on unthrottling")

-- 
viresh

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[PATCH 3/8] cpufreq: powerenv: Fix memory leak Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-06-01 12:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpufreq: powerenv: Fix memory leak Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-06-02 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpufreq: powerenv: Fix memory leak Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-06-02 13:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpufreq: powerenv: Fix memory leak Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-06-02 13:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpufreq: powerenv: Fix memory leak Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-06-02 13:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpufreq: powerenv: Fix memory leak Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-06-02 14:10 +0200

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