Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 5 authors, 2024-05-07

Re: [PATCH net v5 2/4] ax25: Fix reference count leak issues of ax25_dev

From: Markus Elfring <hidden>
Date: 2024-05-07 09:13:24
Also in: kernel-janitors, linux-hams, lkml

The ax25_addr_ax25dev() and ax25_dev_device_down() exist a reference
count leak issue of the object "ax25_dev".
Please improve this wording.

Suggestion:
   Two function implementations contained programming mistakes.
   Thus …

Memory leak issue in ax25_addr_ax25dev():

The reference count of the object "ax25_dev" can be increased multiple
times in ax25_addr_ax25dev(). This will cause a memory leak so far.
…

* How do you think about to work with indentation in such a description
  for item enumeration?

* Would you like to add imperative wordings for improved changelogs?
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.9-rc7#n94

Regards,
Markus
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