My previous commit introduced a memory leak where the item allocated from tlmi_setting was not freed. This commit also renames it to avoid confusion with the similarly name variable in the same function. Fixes: 8a02d70679fc ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Add possible_values for ThinkStation") Reported-by: Mirsad Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/df26ff45-8933-f2b3-25f4-6ee51ccda7d8@xxxxxx/T/ Signed-off-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@xxxxxxxxx> --- This patch series builds on top of the proposed patch from Armin Wolf "platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix memory leak when showing current settings" Changes in v2: None, but rebased series because of issues with second patch. drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c index 6034df6d577d..87f832142d8d 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c @@ -1459,10 +1459,10 @@ static int tlmi_analyze(void) * name string. * Try and pull that out if it's available. */ - char *item, *optstart, *optend; + char *optitem, *optstart, *optend; - if (!tlmi_setting(setting->index, &item, LENOVO_BIOS_SETTING_GUID)) { - optstart = strstr(item, "[Optional:"); + if (!tlmi_setting(setting->index, &optitem, LENOVO_BIOS_SETTING_GUID)) { + optstart = strstr(optitem, "[Optional:"); if (optstart) { optstart += strlen("[Optional:"); optend = strstr(optstart, "]"); @@ -1471,6 +1471,7 @@ static int tlmi_analyze(void) kstrndup(optstart, optend - optstart, GFP_KERNEL); } + kfree(optitem); } } /* -- 2.39.2