From 2498ce42d3a4d1a498f1df4884da960087547db7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralph Wuerthner <ralphw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 16:02:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] alloc_vmap_area: fix memory leak

If alloc_vmap_area() fails the allocated struct vmap_area has to be freed.

Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <ralphw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index fab19876b4d1..083716ea38c9 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ static struct vmap_area *alloc_vmap_area(unsigned long size,
 			printk(KERN_WARNING
 				"vmap allocation for size %lu failed: "
 				"use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.\n", size);
+		kfree(va);
 		return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
 	}
 
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