linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Don't leak 'old_class_name' in drivers/base/core.c::device

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Message-ID: <20060929101327.1ae1b793@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:13:27 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Patrick Mochel <mochel@...l.org>,
	Patrick Mochel <mochel@...inity.powertie.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't leak 'old_class_name' in
 drivers/base/core.c::device_rename()

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:56:01 +0200,
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com> wrote:

> If kmalloc() fails to allocate space for 'old_symlink_name' in
> drivers/base/core.c::device_rename(), then we'll leak 'old_class_name'.

driver-core-fixes-check-for-return-value-of-sysfs_create_link.patch (in
-mm) already fixes this (amongst other things).

-- 
Cornelia Huck
Linux for zSeries Developer
Tel.: +49-7031-16-4837, Mail: cornelia.huck@...ibm.com
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