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Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:09:01 -0700
From:	Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@...eaurora.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	ppannuto@...eaurora.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] Driver core: Fix potential memory leak

In both of the 'goto out' cases, priv has already
been allocated and assigned to bus->p. We reset
bus->p to NULL, but neglect to free bus->p

Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@...eaurora.org>
---
 drivers/base/bus.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index 12eec3f..eb1b7fa 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -945,8 +945,8 @@ bus_devices_fail:
 	bus_remove_file(bus, &bus_attr_uevent);
 bus_uevent_fail:
 	kset_unregister(&bus->p->subsys);
-	kfree(bus->p);
 out:
+	kfree(bus->p);
 	bus->p = NULL;
 	return retval;
 }
-- 
1.7.2

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