This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Fix memory leak

to the 2.6.33-longterm tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     hwmon-asus_atk0110-fix-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.33 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.33 longterm 
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 0b8e77f12cb6bfe2e5a67f2cdc8c7af23abc4ccf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Tettamanti <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:39:18 +0200
Subject: hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Fix memory leak

From: Luca Tettamanti <[email protected]>

commit 0b8e77f12cb6bfe2e5a67f2cdc8c7af23abc4ccf upstream.

The object returned by atk_gitm is dynamically allocated and must be
freed.

Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/hwmon/asus_atk0110.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/hwmon/asus_atk0110.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/asus_atk0110.c
@@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ static int atk_debugfs_gitm_get(void *p,
        else
                err = -EIO;
 
+       ACPI_FREE(ret);
        return err;
 }
 


Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.33 which might be from 
[email protected] are

/home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33/queue-2.6.33/hwmon-asus_atk0110-fix-memory-leak.patch

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