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authorDave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>2007-12-17 16:20:00 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-12-17 19:28:16 -0800
commitd17a18dd92c91c784fcf7c785fa6bbf178fd0a6d (patch)
treeb30a69a515dc3d183ff8ce0074433d6e6cfa2305 /drivers/block
parentmm/sparse.c: improve the error handling for sparse_add_one_section() (diff)
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pktcdvd: add kobject_put when kobject register fails
In kobject_register, the kobject reference is get in kobject_init, and then kobject_add. If kobject_add fail, it will only cleanup the reference got by itself. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/pktcdvd.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c b/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
index a5ee21319d37..3535ef896677 100644
--- a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
@@ -117,8 +117,10 @@ static struct pktcdvd_kobj* pkt_kobj_create(struct pktcdvd_device *pd,
p->kobj.parent = parent;
p->kobj.ktype = ktype;
p->pd = pd;
- if (kobject_register(&p->kobj) != 0)
+ if (kobject_register(&p->kobj) != 0) {
+ kobject_put(&p->kobj);
return NULL;
+ }
return p;
}
/*