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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: 慕冬亮 <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>
Cc: rafael@kernel.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion on how to fix "memory leak in snd_ctl_led_register"
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 06:17:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YK8dUDlYrq/RRzo7@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD-N9QWYOE5vW=Q4wP74vV-TkrZUDFZxLn5OACX4jUC2ysEACQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:49:22AM +0800, 慕冬亮 wrote:
> Hi kernel developers,
> 
> The root cause of "memory leak in snd_ctl_led_register" [1] is
> unbalanced refcount operations in the device_add function [2]. This
> refcount issue causes struct device_private allocated in
> device_private_init unable to be deallocated, leading to memory leak.
> The details are as follows:

<snip>

Great, can you just send a patch to us to resolve the issue?  That's the
easiest way to resolve all of this.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-27  4:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-27  2:49 慕冬亮
2021-05-27  4:17 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-05-27  4:20   ` 慕冬亮
2021-05-27  4:47     ` 慕冬亮

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