+ capifs-fix-memory-leak-on-remount.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     capifs: fix memory leak on remount
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     capifs-fix-memory-leak-on-remount.patch

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Subject: capifs: fix memory leak on remount
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>

capifs_remount may reach 'return' statement without freeing of memory
allocated by kstrdup call

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff -puN drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c~capifs-fix-memory-leak-on-remount drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c
--- a/drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c~capifs-fix-memory-leak-on-remount
+++ a/drivers/isdn/capi/capifs.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ static int capifs_remount(struct super_b
 		} else if (sscanf(this_char, "mode=%o%c", &n, &dummy) == 1)
 			mode = n & ~S_IFMT;
 		else {
+			kfree(new_opt);
 			printk("capifs: called with bogus options\n");
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx are

thinkpad-acpi-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference.patch
git-x86.patch
git-avr32.patch
git-dvb.patch
git-gfs2-nmw.patch
m32r-cleanup-drop-dataidt-section-in-vmlinuxlds-script.patch
nfs-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference-v2.patch
capifs-fix-memory-leak-on-remount.patch
elf-use-ei_nident-instead-of-numeric-value.patch
binfmt-fill_elf_header-cleanup-use-straight-memset-first.patch

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