[PATCH] sysfs: avoid kmem_cache_free(NULL)

[PATCH] sysfs: avoid kmem_cache_free(NULL)

[Akinobu Mita]

kmem_cache_free() with NULL is not allowed. But it may happen
if out of memory error is triggered in sysfs_new_dirent().
This patch fixes that error handling.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>

---
 fs/sysfs/dir.c |   13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: 2.6-git/fs/sysfs/dir.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6-git.orig/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ 2.6-git/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -361,20 +361,20 @@ static struct dentry_operations sysfs_de
 struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_new_dirent(const char *name, umode_t mode, int type)
 {
 	char *dup_name = NULL;
-	struct sysfs_dirent *sd = NULL;
+	struct sysfs_dirent *sd;
 
 	if (type & SYSFS_COPY_NAME) {
 		name = dup_name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!name)
-			goto err_out;
+			return NULL;
 	}
 
 	sd = kmem_cache_zalloc(sysfs_dir_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sd)
-		goto err_out;
+		goto err_out1;
 
 	if (sysfs_alloc_ino(&sd->s_ino))
-		goto err_out;
+		goto err_out2;
 
 	atomic_set(&sd->s_count, 1);
 	atomic_set(&sd->s_active, 0);
@@ -386,9 +386,10 @@ struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_new_dirent(co
 
 	return sd;
 
- err_out:
-	kfree(dup_name);
+ err_out2:
 	kmem_cache_free(sysfs_dir_cachep, sd);
+ err_out1:
+	kfree(dup_name);
 	return NULL;
 }