From: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:34:58 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: [PATCH] ppc64: lparconfig.c memory leak
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc1~1034^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=597f95e2bfbe9b83ed8b0761ebf4e7d55fd4df17;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] ppc64: lparconfig.c memory leak

This patch fixes a rare memory leak found by Coverity.

Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/ppc64/kernel/lparcfg.c b/arch/ppc64/kernel/lparcfg.c
index 9d034ff062..edad361a8d 100644
--- a/arch/ppc64/kernel/lparcfg.c
+++ b/arch/ppc64/kernel/lparcfg.c
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ static void parse_system_parameter_string(struct seq_file *m)
 		if (!workbuffer) {
 			printk(KERN_ERR "%s %s kmalloc failure at line %d \n",
 			       __FILE__, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__);
+			kfree(local_buffer);			
 			return;
 		}
 #ifdef LPARCFG_DEBUG