From 186ae367af232e0c8faa43abad07085d5787071c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:35:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] * grub-core/disk/loopback.c (grub_cmd_loopback): Fix a memory
 leak when replacing an existing device.

---
 ChangeLog                 | 5 +++++
 grub-core/disk/loopback.c | 4 ----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 044be9d5c..512b61cac 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-04-01  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
+
+	* grub-core/disk/loopback.c (grub_cmd_loopback): Fix a memory leak
+	when replacing an existing device.
+
 2011-04-01  Vladimir Serbinenko  <phcoder@gmail.com>
 
 	Fix incorrect types in jfs.c. This enables >2TiB disks and fixes some
diff --git a/grub-core/disk/loopback.c b/grub-core/disk/loopback.c
index b05940a4a..02e6c164f 100644
--- a/grub-core/disk/loopback.c
+++ b/grub-core/disk/loopback.c
@@ -97,10 +97,6 @@ grub_cmd_loopback (grub_extcmd_context_t ctxt, int argc, char **args)
 
   if (newdev)
     {
-      char *newname = grub_strdup (args[1]);
-      if (! newname)
-	goto fail;
-
       grub_file_close (newdev->file);
       newdev->file = file;