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| author |   Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com> | 2021-09-07 20:00:15 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-09-08 11:50:27 -0700 |
| commit | 24f8cb1ed057c840728167dab33b32e44147c86f (patch) | |
| tree | 3254a4670bf57a011a0c870bf39f36be7e146a83 /fs | |
| parent | nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-24f8cb1ed057c840728167dab33b32e44147c86f.tar.xz linux-dev-24f8cb1ed057c840728167dab33b32e44147c86f.zip | |
nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group
If kobject_init_and_add return with error, kobject_put() is needed here to
avoid memory leak, because kobject_init_and_add may return error without
freeing the memory associated with the kobject it allocated.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210629022556.3985106-4-sunnanyong@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1625651306-10829-4-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c index ec85ac53720d..6305e4ef7e39 100644 --- a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c +++ b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ static int nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group(struct the_nilfs *nilfs) \ err = kobject_init_and_add(kobj, &nilfs_##name##_ktype, parent, \ #name); \ if (err) \ - return err; \ - return 0; \ + kobject_put(kobj); \ + return err; \ } \ static void nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group(struct the_nilfs *nilfs) \ { \ |