[PATCH] fix adm9240 oops

[Jonathan Corbet]

The adm9240 driver, in adm9240_detect(), allocates a structure.  The
error path attempts to kfree() a subfield of that structure, resulting
in an oops (or slab corruption) if the hardware is not present.  This
one seems worth fixing for 2.6.13.

jon

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>

--- 2.6.13-rc7/drivers/hwmon/adm9240.c.orig	2005-08-25 14:30:04.000000000 -0600
+++ 2.6.13-rc7/drivers/hwmon/adm9240.c	2005-08-25 14:30:26.000000000 -0600
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ static int adm9240_detect(struct i2c_ada
 
 	return 0;
 exit_free:
-	kfree(new_client);
+	kfree(data);
 exit:
 	return err;
 }
-
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