[PATCH 3/3] staging: bcm: fix memory leak in Bcmchar.c file

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commit dc35d7521677c48e09bf0cbe4ace8f3e3e93d4ca
Author: Kevin McKinney <kmckinney@MegaMachine.(none)>
Date:   Tue Aug 9 20:36:11 2011 -0400

    Staging: bcm: Fix memory leak reported during compile.
    This patch is to fix a potential memory leak were temp_buff buffer
    is not being freed when a certain condition is true.
    Signed-off-by: Kevin McKinney <klmckinney1@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
index 1986094..d304755 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
@@ -1058,6 +1058,7 @@ cntrlEnd:
 			if (copy_to_user(IoBuffer.OutputBuffer, temp_buff,
sizeof(S_MIBS_HOST_STATS_MIBS)))
 				Status = -EFAULT;

+		kfree(temp_buff);
 		break;
 	}
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