Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: wm0010: Fix resource leak

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:15:18AM +0100, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:

• xfer = kzalloc(sizeof(*xfer), GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
  

• if (!xfer) {
  

• 	dev_err(codec->dev, "Failed to allocate xfer\n");
  

• 	ret = -ENOMEM;
  

• 	goto abort1;
  

• }
  

Why is this being allocated with GFP_DMA? It's an internal data structure, it's not going to be DMAed from.

Please also provide a changelog, a link to some address on the web isn't a useful description.