linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware/efivars: handle error

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Date:	Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:29:42 -0500
From:	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware/efivars: handle error


	On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:19:49AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
> 
> ---
> 
>  drivers/firmware/efivars.c      |    7 ++++++-
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
> index 8ebce1c..5ab5e39 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
> @@ -639,7 +639,12 @@ efivar_create_sysfs_entry(unsigned long 
>  
>  	kobject_set_name(&new_efivar->kobj, "%s", short_name);
>  	kobj_set_kset_s(new_efivar, vars_subsys);
> -	kobject_register(&new_efivar->kobj);
> +	i = kobject_register(&new_efivar->kobj);
> +	if (i) {
> +		kfree(short_name);
> +		kfree(new_efivar);
> +		return 1;
> +	}
>  
>  	kfree(short_name);
>  	short_name = NULL;


Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>

Thanks Jeff!

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