diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index b7d40b445932..19e1162685e8 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 5ff98ae18bec792d77bfea801aa4b3385b98b355
+refs/heads/master: 597f95e2bfbe9b83ed8b0761ebf4e7d55fd4df17
diff --git a/trunk/arch/ppc64/kernel/lparcfg.c b/trunk/arch/ppc64/kernel/lparcfg.c
index 9d034ff062b1..edad361a8db0 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/ppc64/kernel/lparcfg.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/ppc64/kernel/lparcfg.c
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ static void parse_system_parameter_string(struct seq_file *m)
 		if (!workbuffer) {
 			printk(KERN_ERR "%s %s kmalloc failure at line %d \n",
 			       __FILE__, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__);
+			kfree(local_buffer);			
 			return;
 		}
 #ifdef LPARCFG_DEBUG