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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:20:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
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        Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Fix memory leak in
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Looks like this bug was added by 
5a284cd75d635e3c5db0210dc9a9a44c6839f460
(ACPICA: Fix local variable mess in acpi_ev_asynch_execute_gpe_method).

The good news is that it is new in 2.6.38-merge
Also, I doubt that these error cases actually
occur in any significant frequency in practice.

Thanks for the find.

Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center