This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "gdrom: fix a memory leak bug"
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git in the char-misc-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 13:56:53 +0200 Subject: Revert "gdrom: fix a memory leak bug"
This reverts commit 093c48213ee37c3c3ff1cf5ac1aa2a9d8bc66017.
Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were correct or not.
Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons below, so it must be reverted. It will be fixed up "correctly" in a later kernel change.
Because of this, all submissions from this group must be reverted from the kernel tree and will need to be re-reviewed again to determine if they actually are a valid fix. Until that work is complete, remove this change to ensure that no problems are being introduced into the codebase.
Cc: Wenwen Wang wang6495@umn.edu Cc: Peter Rosin peda@axentia.se Cc: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk Fixes: 093c48213ee3 ("gdrom: fix a memory leak bug") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-27-gregkh@linuxfoundation.o... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c b/drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c index 742b4a0932e3..7f681320c7d3 100644 --- a/drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c +++ b/drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c @@ -862,7 +862,6 @@ static void __exit exit_gdrom(void) platform_device_unregister(pd); platform_driver_unregister(&gdrom_driver); kfree(gd.toc); - kfree(gd.cd_info); }
module_init(init_gdrom);