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Message-Id: <1279836546-26913-5-git-send-email-ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:09:04 -0700
From: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@...eaurora.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: ppannuto@...eaurora.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
David Teigland <teigland@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Driver core: Fix memory leak on sysdev_class_register error path
This leak is the same as the bus path; cls->kset.kobj.name is
set, but kset_register fails, thus nothing will ever call
kset_unregister and name will be leaked
Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@...eaurora.org>
---
drivers/base/sys.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/sys.c b/drivers/base/sys.c
index 9354dc1..e5deab1 100644
--- a/drivers/base/sys.c
+++ b/drivers/base/sys.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
#include "base.h"
@@ -148,6 +149,8 @@ int sysdev_class_register(struct sysdev_class *cls)
if (!retval && cls->attrs)
retval = sysfs_create_files(&cls->kset.kobj,
(const struct attribute **)cls->attrs);
+ else
+ kfree(cls->kset.kobj.name);
return retval;
}
--
1.7.2
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