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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:11:10 -0500
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: viro@math.psu.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: path_release missing or not?
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Al, please tell me if the patch below is bogus. I checked paths
and it looks right, but I may be missing something.

-- Pete

--- linux-2.4.19/fs/namei.c	2002-08-02 17:39:45.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.4.19-p3/fs/namei.c	2002-11-12 14:01:55.000000000 -0800
@@ -1984,8 +1984,10 @@
 	 * bloody create() on broken symlinks. Furrfu...
 	 */
 	name = __getname();
-	if (!name)
+	if (!name) {
+		path_release(nd);
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 	strcpy(name, nd->last.name);
 	nd->last.name = name;
 	return 0;
-
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