Revert "consolemap: Fix a memory leaking bug in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c"
This reverts commit 84ecc2f6. con_insert_unipair() is working with a sparse 3-dimensional array: - p->uni_pgdir[] is the top layer - p1 points to a middle layer - p2 points to a bottom layer If it needs to allocate a new middle layer, and then fails to allocate a new bottom layer, it would previously free only p2, and now it frees both p1 and p2. But since the new middle layer was already registered in the top layer, it was not leaked. However, if it looks up an *existing* middle layer and then fails to allocate a bottom layer, it now frees both p1 and p2 but does *not* free any other bottom layers under p1. So it *introduces* a memory leak. The error path also cleared the wrong index in p->uni_pgdir[], introducing a use-after-free. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Fixes: 84ecc2f6 ("consolemap: Fix a memory leaking bug in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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