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Subject: Re: Fix for memory leak in the wireless extensions layer
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Date:   Thu, 29 Nov 2018 09:18:23 -0600
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On 11/29/18 6:50 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 01:49:21PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> Greg,
>>
>> Is the fix for a memory leak in the wext compat layer queued for stable? It
>> is in kernel:HEAD as commit 848e616e66d4592fe9afc40743d3504deb7632b4
>> ("cfg80211: fix wext-compat memory leak")
>>
>> I just receiv3ed a complaint about a leak for a system that is running
>> Ubuntu's kernel 4.19.
> 
> That would be very odd as commit
> 848e616e66d4592fe9afc40743d3504deb7632b4 is in 4.19, it was in 4.19-rc7.
> 
>> Unfortunately, this commit has a "fixes" line, but not a Cc for Stable.
> 
> It could have gone into the 4.18-stable tree, but that is now
> end-of-life, sorry.

Too bad, but thanks for the reply.

Larry