diff -urNp 2.4.20pre9/mm/vmalloc.c x/mm/vmalloc.c
--- 2.4.20pre9/mm/vmalloc.c	Fri Oct  4 04:13:51 2002
+++ x/mm/vmalloc.c	Sun Oct  6 23:02:08 2002
@@ -176,9 +176,13 @@ struct vm_struct * get_vm_area(unsigned 
 	area = (struct vm_struct *) kmalloc(sizeof(*area), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!area)
 		return NULL;
+
 	size += PAGE_SIZE;
-	if(!size)
+	if (!size) {
+		kfree (area);
 		return NULL;
+	}
+
 	addr = VMALLOC_START;
 	write_lock(&vmlist_lock);
 	for (p = &vmlist; (tmp = *p) ; p = &tmp->next) {