Re: [PATCH] Don't leak 'old_class_name' in drivers/base/core.c::device_rename()

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:56:01 +0200,
Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> wrote:

> If kmalloc() fails to allocate space for 'old_symlink_name' in
> drivers/base/core.c::device_rename(), then we'll leak 'old_class_name'.

driver-core-fixes-check-for-return-value-of-sysfs_create_link.patch (in
-mm) already fixes this (amongst other things).

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