[78/93] class: Free the class private data in class_release

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Feb 19 2010 - 12:06:01 EST


2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 18d19c96457d172d913510c083bc7411ed40cb10 upstream.

Fix a memory leak by freeing the memory allocated in __class_register
for the class private data.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/base/class.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/base/class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/class.c
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ static void class_release(struct kobject
else
pr_debug("class '%s' does not have a release() function, "
"be careful\n", class->name);
+
+ kfree(cp);
}

static struct sysfs_ops class_sysfs_ops = {


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