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* [PATCH 1/3] ppdev: fix memory leak
@ 2016-11-10 22:11 Sudip Mukherjee
  2016-11-10 22:12 ` [PATCH 2/3] MAINTAINERS: update email Sudip Mukherjee
  2016-11-10 22:12 ` [PATCH 3/3] ppdev: use pr_* macros Sudip Mukherjee
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From: Sudip Mukherjee @ 2016-11-10 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arnd Bergmann, Greg Kroah-Hartman; +Cc: linux-kernel, Sudip Mukherjee

The variable name was only released if parport_register_dev_model()
fails. Now that we are using the device-model the parport driver
will duplicate the name and use it. So we can release the variable
after the device has been registered with the parport.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
---
 drivers/char/ppdev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ppdev.c b/drivers/char/ppdev.c
index 6af1ce0..f08f3ed 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ppdev.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ppdev.c
@@ -305,10 +305,10 @@ static int register_device(int minor, struct pp_struct *pp)
 	ppdev_cb.private = pp;
 	pdev = parport_register_dev_model(port, name, &ppdev_cb, minor);
 	parport_put_port(port);
+	kfree(name);
 
 	if (!pdev) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: failed to register device!\n", name);
-		kfree(name);
 		return -ENXIO;
 	}
 
-- 
1.9.1

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