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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>2012-10-11 12:32:20 +0200
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2012-10-30 11:39:23 +0100
commitc0359db1a1c484ea810f4d5a877d3b00d107908b (patch)
tree54d35d771d8b0bd8fd2e0f2b2b6ae4047c9f000c /drivers/firmware/efivars.c
parentefivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() fix inode reference counts (diff)
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efivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() ensure we free our temporary name
d_alloc_name() copies the passed name to new storage, once complete we no longer need our name. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware/efivars.c')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index adfc4863202b..36b3dd6e1e5e 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -992,6 +992,8 @@ int efivarfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
inode = efivarfs_get_inode(efivarfs_sb, root->d_inode,
S_IFREG | 0644, 0);
dentry = d_alloc_name(root, name);
+ /* copied by the above to local storage in the dentry. */
+ kfree(name);
efivars->ops->get_variable(entry->var.VariableName,
&entry->var.VendorGuid,