linux-kernel - [PATCH] kobject: should use kobject

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Message-ID: <4851E4DC.6040603@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:09:16 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] kobject: should use kobject_put() in kset-example

We should call kobject_put() instead of kfree() if kobject_init_and_add()
returns an error, shouldn't we? Don't set up a bad example ;)

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
---
 samples/kobject/kset-example.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/samples/kobject/kset-example.c b/samples/kobject/kset-example.c
index b0a1b4f..7395c0b 100644
--- a/samples/kobject/kset-example.c
+++ b/samples/kobject/kset-example.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static struct foo_obj *create_foo_obj(const char *name)
 	 */
 	retval = kobject_init_and_add(&foo->kobj, &foo_ktype, NULL, "%s", name);
 	if (retval) {
-		kfree(foo);
+		kobject_put(&foo->kobj);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
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1.5.4.rc3
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