linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/8] firmware: vpd: do not leak kobjects

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Date:   Wed, 24 May 2017 10:16:06 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <groeck@...gle.com>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@...gle.com>,
        Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] firmware: vpd: do not leak kobjects

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:
> kobject_del() only unlinks kobject, we need to use kobject_put() to
> make sure kobject will go away completely.
>
> Fixes: 049a59db34eb ("firmware: Google VPD sysfs driver")
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>

> ---
>  drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c b/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c
> index b3a6e918418b..cb07a2984ece 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c
> @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static int vpd_section_destroy(struct vpd_section *sec)
>  {
>         if (sec->enabled) {
>                 vpd_section_attrib_destroy(sec);
> -               kobject_del(sec->kobj);
> +               kobject_put(sec->kobj);
>                 sysfs_remove_bin_file(vpd_kobj, &sec->bin_attr);
>                 kfree(sec->raw_name);
>                 iounmap(sec->baseaddr);
> @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ static void __exit vpd_platform_exit(void)
>  {
>         vpd_section_destroy(&ro_vpd);
>         vpd_section_destroy(&rw_vpd);
> -       kobject_del(vpd_kobj);
> +       kobject_put(vpd_kobj);
>  }
>
>  module_init(vpd_platform_init);
> --
> 2.13.0.219.gdb65acc882-goog
>