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| author |   Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> | 2012-10-11 11:32:20 +0100 |
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| committer |   Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> | 2012-10-30 10:39:23 +0000 |
| commit | c0359db1a1c484ea810f4d5a877d3b00d107908b (patch) | |
| tree | 54d35d771d8b0bd8fd2e0f2b2b6ae4047c9f000c /drivers/firmware/efivars.c | |
| parent | efivarfs: 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>
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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 2 |
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, |