[PATCH] acpi: Fix a broken kfree in i2c_ec

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Fri Aug 11 2006 - 02:28:11 EST


Fix an obviously broken kfree() in acpi/i2c_ec device initialization
error path.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This function would benefit from some improvements (single error path,
kzalloc) but let's fix that obvious bug first. This would preferably go
to Linus before 2.6.18.

drivers/acpi/i2c_ec.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.18-rc3.orig/drivers/acpi/i2c_ec.c 2006-07-26 23:03:57.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc3/drivers/acpi/i2c_ec.c 2006-08-01 16:22:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
status = acpi_evaluate_integer(ec_hc->handle, "_EC", NULL, &val);
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_WARN, "Error obtaining _EC\n"));
- kfree(ec_hc->smbus);
+ kfree(ec_hc);
kfree(smbus);
return -EIO;
}


--
Jean Delvare
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