[PATCH 02/44] efivars: memory leak on error in create_efivars_bin_attributes()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu May 19 2011 - 20:11:14 EST


From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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;
--
1.7.4.2

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