From: Andy Whitcroft
Git-commit: c0359db1a1c484ea810f4d5a877d3b00d107908b
Patch-mainline: v3.8-rc1
Target: openSUSE 12.3
d_alloc_name() copies the passed name to new storage, once complete we
no longer need our name.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett
Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming
Acked-by: Lee, Chun-Yi
---
drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -992,6 +992,8 @@ int efivarfs_fill_super(struct super_blo
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,
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