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[PATCH ACPI] memory leak in acpi_evaluate_integer()
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description: acpi_evaluate_integer() does not release allocated memory on the error path. Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Thank you, Vasily Averin SWsoft Virtuozzo/OpenVZ Linux kernel team --- a/drivers/acpi/utils.c 2006-04-09 14:31:39.000000000 +0400 +++ b/drivers/acpi/utils.c 2006-04-09 14:35:02.000000000 +0400 @@ -273,11 +273,13 @@ acpi_evaluate_integer(acpi_handle handle status = acpi_evaluate_object(handle, pathname, arguments, &buffer); if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) { acpi_util_eval_error(handle, pathname, status); + kfree(element); return_ACPI_STATUS(status); } if (element->type != ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) { acpi_util_eval_error(handle, pathname, AE_BAD_DATA); + kfree(element); return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_BAD_DATA); }
creator: vaverin
date: 2006-04-09T15:05:00-00:00