* [patch 1/2] efivars: memory leak on error in create_efivars_bin_attributes()
@ 2011-03-18 7:12 Dan Carpenter
2011-03-18 9:23 ` Mike Waychison
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2011-03-18 7:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Mike Waychison, Chris Wright, Tejun Heo, linux-kernel,
kernel-janitors
This is a cut and paste bug. We intended to free ->del_var and
->new_var but we only free ->new_var.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index ff0c373..ff2fe40 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -677,8 +677,8 @@ create_efivars_bin_attributes(struct efivars *efivars)
return 0;
out_free:
- kfree(efivars->new_var);
- efivars->new_var = NULL;
+ kfree(efivars->del_var);
+ efivars->del_var = NULL;
kfree(efivars->new_var);
efivars->new_var = NULL;
return error;
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* Re: [patch 1/2] efivars: memory leak on error in create_efivars_bin_attributes()
2011-03-18 7:12 [patch 1/2] efivars: memory leak on error in create_efivars_bin_attributes() Dan Carpenter
@ 2011-03-18 9:23 ` Mike Waychison
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mike Waychison @ 2011-03-18 9:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Carpenter, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Mike Waychison, Chris Wright,
Tejun Heo, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a cut and paste bug. We intended to free ->del_var and
> ->new_var but we only free ->new_var.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
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