Merge branch 'fix/misc' into topic/misc

Conflicts:
	sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 25b103190364..bf0e231d9702 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -520,13 +520,15 @@ int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	ret = call_usermodehelper_stdinpipe(sub_info, filp);
-	if (ret < 0)
-		goto out;
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
+		return ret;
+	}
 
-	return call_usermodehelper_exec(sub_info, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
+	ret = call_usermodehelper_exec(sub_info, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
+	if (ret < 0)	/* Failed to execute helper, close pipe */
+		filp_close(*filp, NULL);
 
-  out:
-	call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_pipe);