From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Fleming Subject: [PATCH 12/20] efivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() ensure we free our temporary name Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:51:55 +0100 Message-ID: <1351237923-10313-13-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> References: <1351237923-10313-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1351237923-10313-1-git-send-email-matt-HNK1S37rvNbeXh+fF434Mdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: Matthew Garrett , Jeremy Kerr , Andy Whitcroft , Jan Beulich , Chun-Yi Lee , Matt Fleming List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org From: Andy Whitcroft d_alloc_name() copies the passed name to new storage, once complete we no longer need our name. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Acked-by: Matthew Garrett Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming --- drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c index 79f3e4e..dcb34ae 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c @@ -992,6 +992,8 @@ int efivarfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) inode = efivarfs_get_inode(efivarfs_sb, root->d_inode, S_IFREG | 0644, 0); dentry = d_alloc_name(root, name); + /* copied by the above to local storage in the dentry. */ + kfree(name); efivars->ops->get_variable(entry->var.VariableName, &entry->var.VendorGuid, -- 1.7.11.7