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

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Date:	Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:48:45 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	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 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:13:27 +0200
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com> wrote:

> 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).
> 

I noticed ;)

Greg, I fixed up the rejects this caued to
driver-core-fixes-check-for-return-value-of-sysfs_create_link.patch so you
might as well hang onto this patch.  Will include Cornelia's patch in the next
patch-bombing.
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