powerpc/rtas_flash: Eliminate possible double free

Author: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>

The function initialize_flash_pde_data is only called four times.  All four
calls are in the function rtas_flash_init, and on the failure of any of the
calls, remove_flash_pde is called on the third argument of each of the
calls.  There is thus no need for initialize_flash_pde_data to call
remove_flash_pde on the same argument.  remove_flash_pde kfrees the data
field of its argument, and does not clear that field, so this amounts ot a
possible double free.

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

// 
@r@
identifier f,free,a;
parameter list[n] ps;
type T;
expression e;
@@

f(ps,T a,...) {
  ... when any
      when != a = e
  if(...) { ... free(a); ... return ...; }
  ... when any
}

@@
identifier r.f,r.free;
expression x,a;
expression list[r.n] xs;
@@

* x = f(xs,a,...);
  if (...) { ... free(a); ... return ...; }
// 

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
index 20b0120..8329190 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
@@ -650,10 +650,8 @@ static int initialize_flash_pde_data(const char *rtas_call_name,
 	int token;
 
 	dp->data = kzalloc(buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (dp->data == NULL) {
-		remove_flash_pde(dp);
+	if (dp->data == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	/*
 	 * This code assumes that the status int is the first member of the
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