parisc: fix possible memory leak in pat_query_module()

Author: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>

pa_pdc_cell has been allocated in this function and so should be
freed before leaving from the error handling cases.

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun 
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

---
 arch/parisc/kernel/inventory.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
 
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/inventory.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/inventory.c
index 08324aa..3295ef4 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/inventory.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/inventory.c
@@ -186,12 +186,14 @@ pat_query_module(ulong pcell_loc, ulong mod_index)
 
 	if (status != PDC_OK) {
 		/* no more cell modules or error */
+		kfree(pa_pdc_cell);
 		return status;
 	}
 
 	temp = pa_pdc_cell->cba;
 	dev = alloc_pa_dev(PAT_GET_CBA(temp), &(pa_pdc_cell->mod_path));
 	if (!dev) {
+		kfree(pa_pdc_cell);
 		return PDC_OK;
 	}

parisc: fix possible memory leak in pat_query_module()

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