asus-laptop: fix a memory leak in asus_laptop_get_info error path
authorAxel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:09:47 +0000 (11:09 +0800)
committerMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Tue, 3 Aug 2010 13:48:51 +0000 (09:48 -0400)
The callers of write_acpi_int_ret() pass ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER,
the caller must kfree the returned buffer if AE_OK is returned.

This patch adds a missing kfree(buffer.pointer) before return -ENOMEM
if kstrdup fail.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c

index efe8f63889065dff18aa9ae7d7d4ffb10d6d9279..4af5709f83179aa62f44a11e69684f6713ab93c4 100644 (file)
@@ -1397,8 +1397,10 @@ static int asus_laptop_get_info(struct asus_laptop *asus)
                }
        }
        asus->name = kstrdup(string, GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!asus->name)
+       if (!asus->name) {
+               kfree(buffer.pointer);
                return -ENOMEM;
+       }
 
        if (*string)
                pr_notice("  %s model detected\n", string);