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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: fix wext-compat memory leak
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Hi Johannes,

Am 01.10.18 um 09:12 schrieb Johannes Berg:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> Thanks for the investigation & fix. I've changed the fix to use
> cfg80211_sinfo_release_content(),

Being totally unfamiliar with the code, I was not sure about that :-)

> take care of the error path in
> cfg80211_wext_giwrate() and added a Fixes tag :-)

That's certainly much better.

Thanks!

(kudos to Vlastimil Babka who pointed out trace-cmd to me on the
 opensuse-kernel malinglist, which made the investigation quite easy)
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

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