[PATCH] slub: fix a possible memory leak

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Memory allocated by kstrdup should be freed,
when kmalloc(kmem_size, GFP_KERNEL) is failed.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 23d66aa..9c920a0 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3968,9 +3968,9 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
 			}
 			return s;
 		}
-		kfree(n);
 		kfree(s);
 	}
+	kfree(n);
 err:
 	up_write(&slub_lock);
 
-- 
1.7.9.5

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