drivers/video/gbefb.c: eliminate memory leak

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

This code is preceded by a call to framebuffer_alloc, which allocates
memory, so this memory should be freed before leaving the function in an
error case.  out_release_framebuffer just frees the frame buffer and
returns.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// 
@r exists@
local idexpression x;
expression E;
identifier f1;
iterator I;
@@

x = framebuffer_alloc(...);
<... when != x
     when != true (x == NULL || ...)
     when != if (...) { <+...x...+> }
     when != I (...) { <+...x...+> }
(
 x == NULL
|
 x == E
|
 x->f1
)
...>
* return ...;
// 

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Arnaud Patard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
---
 drivers/video/gbefb.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/video/gbefb.c b/drivers/video/gbefb.c
index ca3355e..933899d 100644
--- a/drivers/video/gbefb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/gbefb.c
@@ -1143,8 +1143,10 @@ static int __devinit gbefb_probe(struct platform_device *p_dev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 #ifndef MODULE
-	if (fb_get_options("gbefb", &options))
-		return -ENODEV;
+	if (fb_get_options("gbefb", &options)) {
+		ret = -ENODEV;
+		goto out_release_framebuffer;
+	}
 	gbefb_setup(options);
 #endif
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