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-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efivars.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index adfc4863202..36b3dd6e1e5 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -992,6 +992,8 @@ int efivarfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
inode = efivarfs_get_inode(efivarfs_sb, root->d_inode,
S_IFREG | 0644, 0);
dentry = d_alloc_name(root, name);
+ /* copied by the above to local storage in the dentry. */
+ kfree(name);
efivars->ops->get_variable(entry->var.VariableName,
&entry->var.VendorGuid,