4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@dell.com
commit ff0e9f26288d2daee4950f42b37a3d3d30d36ec1 upstream.
An ACPI buffer that was allocated was not being freed after use.
Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@dell.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) dvhart@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/platform/x86/alienware-wmi.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/alienware-wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/alienware-wmi.c @@ -518,6 +518,7 @@ static acpi_status alienware_wmax_comman if (obj && obj->type == ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) *out_data = (u32) obj->integer.value; } + kfree(output.pointer); return status;
}