Re: [Patch] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix a wrong free

[WANG Cong]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:39:03PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Looks good although 'ret' is usually reserved for the variable that 
> contains the return value so you might want to consider using the more 
> idiomatic 'out' as the label name.
>

Thanks. Done.

---
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index f6d5a9d..357b503 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@ static int elf_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs *regs, struct file *file, un
 	/* alloc memory for large data structures: too large to be on stack */
 	elf = kmalloc(sizeof(*elf), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!elf)
-		goto cleanup;
+		goto out;
 	
 	segs = current->mm->map_count;
 #ifdef ELF_CORE_EXTRA_PHDRS
@@ -2034,8 +2034,9 @@ end_coredump:
 	set_fs(fs);
 
 cleanup:
-	kfree(elf);
 	free_note_info(&info);
+	kfree(elf);
+out:
 	return has_dumped;
 }
 
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