# Re: \[PATCH\]\[RESEND\] static code analysis from cppcheck reports:

- From: Geert Uytterhoeven \<geert@linux-m68k.org\>
- Date: 2015-01-12 18:02:12 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2015/01/4407954
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2015/01/4407793/t.md

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Colin King [ref] wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <redacted>
>
> [drivers/video/fbdev/broadsheetfb.c:673]:
>   (error) Memory leak: sector_buffer
>
> sector_buffer is not being kfree'd on each call to
> broadsheet_spiflash_rewrite_sector(), so free it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>

So you can make the box go OOM by repeatedly writing to the
loadstore_waveform device attribute file?
Do we want this applied to -stable?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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                                -- Linus Torvalds
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