Re: [PATCH] ppdev: don't print a free'd string

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 04:23:55PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> A previous fix of a memory leak now prints the string 'name'
> that was previously free'd.  Fix this by free'ing the string
> at the end of the function and adding an error exit path for
> the error conditions.
> 
> CoverityScan CID#1384523 ("Use after free")
> 
> Fixes: 2bd362d5f45c1 ("ppdev: fix memory leak")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/char/ppdev.c | 13 ++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Sudip, any thoughts?