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Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:18:45 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Vitaliy Ivanov <vitalivanov@...il.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Subject: [PATCH] uml: drivers/net_user.c memory leak fix

From: Vitaliy Ivanov <vitalivanov@...il.com>

Perform memory cleanup on exit.
On receiving invalid 'pid' we still should clean 'output' variable.

Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Ivanov <vitalivanov@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
---
 arch/um/drivers/net_user.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/net_user.c b/arch/um/drivers/net_user.c
index 9415dd9..5201188 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/net_user.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/net_user.c
@@ -228,7 +228,10 @@ static void change(char *dev, char *what, unsigned char *addr,
 		       "buffer\n");
 
 	pid = change_tramp(argv, output, output_len);
-	if (pid < 0) return;
+	if (pid < 0) {
+		kfree(output);
+		return;
+	}
 
 	if (output != NULL) {
 		printk("%s", output);
-- 
1.7.6

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