linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs/partitions/check.c: add

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Message-ID: <20070730110831.68075b30@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:08:31 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/partitions/check.c: add_partition() warning fixes

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:53:39 +0800,
Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg> wrote:

> @@ -388,20 +389,34 @@ void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part, sector_t start, sector_t len,
>  	p->kobj.parent = &disk->kobj;
>  	p->kobj.ktype = &ktype_part;
>  	kobject_init(&p->kobj);
> -	kobject_add(&p->kobj);
> +	err = kobject_add(&p->kobj);
> +	if (err)
> +		goto err_out;
>  	if (!disk->part_uevent_suppress)
>  		kobject_uevent(&p->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
> -	sysfs_create_link(&p->kobj, &block_subsys.kobj, "subsystem");
> +	err = sysfs_create_link(&p->kobj, &block_subsys.kobj, "subsystem");
> +	if (err)
> +		goto err_out_del_kobj;
>  	if (flags & ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK) {
>  		static struct attribute addpartattr = {
>  			.name = "whole_disk",
>  			.mode = S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH,
>  		};
> 
> -		sysfs_create_file(&p->kobj, &addpartattr);
> +		err = sysfs_create_file(&p->kobj, &addpartattr);
> +		if (err)
> +			goto err_out_del_link;
>  	}
>  	partition_sysfs_add_subdir(p);
>  	disk->part[part-1] = p;
> +	return;
> +
> +err_out_del_link:
> +	sysfs_remove_link(&p->kobj, "subsystem");

You need a remove uevent if you did an add uevent above.

> +err_out_del_kobj:
> +	kobject_del(&p->kobj);
> +err_out:
> +	kfree(p);

Please use kobject_put() instead.
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