[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>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index 8ebce1c03ad7..5ab5e393b882 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;