From 69b2186c5fcb335e29c558e3b4e410e1939b5cc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:22:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] firmware/efivars: handle error

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'drivers/firmware')

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index 8ebce1c03ad..5ab5e393b88 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -639,7 +639,12 @@ efivar_create_sysfs_entry(unsigned long variable_name_size,
 
 	kobject_set_name(&new_efivar->kobj, "%s", short_name);
 	kobj_set_kset_s(new_efivar, vars_subsys);
-	kobject_register(&new_efivar->kobj);
+	i = kobject_register(&new_efivar->kobj);
+	if (i) {
+		kfree(short_name);
+		kfree(new_efivar);
+		return 1;
+	}
 
 	kfree(short_name);
 	short_name = NULL;
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