From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751813AbdIWQPp (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Sep 2017 12:15:45 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58596 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750916AbdIWQPo (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Sep 2017 12:15:44 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 18:15:54 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Stefan Wahren Cc: Aishwarya Pant , Phil Elwell , Eric Anholt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Dan Carpenter , linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: bcm2835-audio: Fix memory corruption Message-ID: <20170923161554.GA13023@kroah.com> References: <1502446827-86427-1-git-send-email-phil@raspberrypi.org> <1488620757.209623.1506164253450@email.1und1.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1488620757.209623.1506164253450@email.1und1.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.0 (2017-09-02) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 12:57:33PM +0200, Stefan Wahren wrote: > Hi Greg, > > > Phil Elwell hat am 11. August 2017 um 12:20 geschrieben: > > > > > > The previous commit (0adbfd46) fixed a memory leak but also freed a > > block in the success case, causing a stale pointer to be used with > > potentially fatal results. Only free the vchi_instance block in the > > case that vchi_connect fails; once connected, the instance is > > retained for subsequent connections. > > > > Simplifying the code by removing a bunch of gotos and returning errors > > directly. > > > > Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell > > Fixes: 0adbfd4694c2 ("staging: bcm2835-audio: fix memory leak in bcm2835_audio_open_connection()") > > can you still apply this patch or do you need a resend? Hm, I don't see this anywhere in my tree, or in my todo mbox, so yes, please resend it, thanks. greg k-h