Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:27:37 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
       Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net>, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org,
       kristen.c.accardi@intel.com, matthew@wil.cx,
       Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 031/104] PCI: prevent duplicate slot names
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:10:39PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I found a memory leak that I introduced with the below patch.
> 
> I sent the patch to Jesse a few days ago, but he hasn't pushed it
> upstream yet.
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/2187/match=stop+leaking
> 
> I did Cc: stable@kernel.org on it, but I'm guessing that since
> it's not upstream yet, you guys never saw it.
> 
> Anyhow, please pick it up for this round of .27-stable, else
> we'll get a memory leak (while trying to work-around the
> duplicate slot name issue).

As much as I hate it, I really need to see the patch in Linus's tree
before I can take it into -stable.

So Jesse, can you please push this to Linus as soon as possible?

Alex, thanks for letting me know about this.

greg k-h
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