[patch 16/49] matrox maven: fix a broken error path

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From: Greg KH
Date: Monday, August 18, 2008 - 12:19 pm

2.6.25-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

commit 5ede40f87957c6ededf9284c8339722a97b9dfb6 upstream

I broke an error path with d03c21ec0be7787ff6b75dcf56c0e96209ccbfbd,
sorry about that.

The machine will crash if the i2c_attach_client() or maven_init_client()
calls fail, although nobody has yet reported this happening.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c
+++ b/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c
@@ -1266,7 +1266,7 @@ static int maven_detect_client(struct i2
 ERROR4:;
 	i2c_detach_client(new_client);
 ERROR3:;
-	kfree(new_client);
+	kfree(data);
 ERROR0:;
 	return err;
 }

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