From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:42:26 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: fix "scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix memory leak"
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~9833^2~1014
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5003bab82d56754b27be01eef24495a02e00039d;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

fix "scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix memory leak"

Fix error introduced by 37ed19d5cce35a40d3913cf9aa208ce9f60db3d7
("scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix memory leak").

 - don't kfree("")

 - fix one missed conversion

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Alexey Fomenko <ext-alexey.fomenko@nokia.com>
Cc: Trevor Keith <tsrk@tsrk.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 1ce655dde99e..7acbdd8fcaed 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
+#include <string.h>
 #include "modpost.h"
 #include "../../include/generated/autoconf.h"
 #include "../../include/linux/license.h"
@@ -1217,7 +1218,7 @@ static char *sec2annotation(const char *s)
 			strcat(p, " ");
 		return r; /* we leak her but we do not care */
 	} else {
-		return "";
+		return strdup("");
 	}
 }
 
@@ -1352,7 +1353,7 @@ static void report_sec_mismatch(const char *modname,
 		"%s%s so it may be used outside an exit section.\n",
 		from, prl_from, fromsym, from_p,
 		to, prl_to, tosym, to_p,
-		sec2annotation(tosec), tosym, to_p);
+		prl_to, tosym, to_p);
 		free(prl_from);
 		free(prl_to);
 		break;