ppdev: fix memory leak

The variable name was only released if parport_register_dev_model()
fails. Now that we are using the device-model the parport driver
will duplicate the name and use it. So we can release the variable
after the device has been registered with the parport.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/char/ppdev.c b/drivers/char/ppdev.c
index 6af1ce04b3dac9ab1fd2e20d52d1930e6798502b..f08f3ed98e013c5c7402d2cbe455cf4176589d07 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/ppdev.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ppdev.c
@@ -305,10 +305,10 @@ static int register_device(int minor, struct pp_struct *pp)
        ppdev_cb.private = pp;
        pdev = parport_register_dev_model(port, name, &ppdev_cb, minor);
        parport_put_port(port);
+       kfree(name);
 
        if (!pdev) {
                printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: failed to register device!\n", name);
-               kfree(name);
                return -ENXIO;
        }