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authorMiaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>2022-01-20 15:18:12 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-01-27 13:05:28 +0300
commitfc1d427d15aac401c4940f07f152885cb74ca3bc (patch)
tree374675957227dfc80e9c63077ce65e754702423d /drivers/parisc
parent911b5ba7c54fd8195d2e969ff3ba14715331f1c7 (diff)
downloadlinux-fc1d427d15aac401c4940f07f152885cb74ca3bc.tar.xz
parisc: pdc_stable: Fix memory leak in pdcs_register_pathentries
commit d24846a4246b6e61ecbd036880a4adf61681d241 upstream. kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add(): If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put(). Fixes: 73f368cf679b ("Kobject: change drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c to use kobject_init_and_add") Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/parisc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c b/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c
index e090978518f1..4760f82def6e 100644
--- a/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c
+++ b/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c
@@ -979,8 +979,10 @@ pdcs_register_pathentries(void)
entry->kobj.kset = paths_kset;
err = kobject_init_and_add(&entry->kobj, &ktype_pdcspath, NULL,
"%s", entry->name);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
+ kobject_put(&entry->kobj);
return err;
+ }
/* kobject is now registered */
write_lock(&entry->rw_lock);