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ppdev: don't print a free'd string
authorColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Fri, 2 Dec 2016 16:23:55 +0000 (16:23 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:14:19 +0000 (09:14 +0100)
commit0fa2c8eb270413160557babda519aa3c21e2bfaf
tree13a8718095bdd9da919dad07249210b2f414f118
parent5b11ebedd6a8bb4271b796e498cd15c0fe1133b6
ppdev: don't print a free'd string

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@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/ppdev.c