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Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:05:50 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] parport: fix memory leak

After the reference count becomes 0 when put_device() is called, it will
execute the release callback where we are freeing all the allocated
memory associated with the device. We missed freeing par_dev->state.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
---
 drivers/parport/share.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/parport/share.c b/drivers/parport/share.c
index d8079e3..1efec44 100644
--- a/drivers/parport/share.c
+++ b/drivers/parport/share.c
@@ -816,6 +816,7 @@ static void free_pardevice(struct device *dev)
 	struct pardevice *par_dev = to_pardevice(dev);
 
 	kfree(par_dev->name);
+	kfree(par_dev->state);
 	kfree(par_dev);
 }
 
-- 
1.8.1.2

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