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Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:17:20 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] memstick: Fix memory leak in memstick_check() error path
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On 10/06/2013 08:57 PM, Alex Dubov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the good old times, when this driver was first written, device name used to be a fixed
> size array (of 32 chars, if I'm not mistaken) in the kobj struct, so there was no need to
> free it explicitly.
>
> Since than, somebody changed the name field to become a loose pointer, but it's not
> obvious how it is supposed to be handled these days.

It has been some time since it was changed. In commit af5ca3f by Kay Sievers and 
merged on Dec 20, 2007, "const char *k_name" was changed to "const char *name". 
I did not go any further back.

I'll submit V2 of my patch for further comment.

Larry


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