misc: vmc_vmci: Fix potential memory leak in vmci_event_subscribe()

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The memory allocated for struct vmci_subscription (sub) is not freed
in the error path when have_new_id is false. Fix that by adding a
kfree() call, and moving the read of sub->id to a point before freeing.

Fixes: 1d990201f9 ("VMCI: event handling implementation.")
Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal <nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in>
Acked-by: Vishnu Dasa <vishnu.dasa@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260722101215.76680-1-nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Abdun Nihaal 2026-07-22 15:42:13 +05:30 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_event.c

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