linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched/cpufreq: Fix kobject memleak

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Message-ID: <20190430051545.GB30100@eros.localdomain>
Date:   Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:15:45 +1000
From:   "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched/cpufreq: Fix kobject memleak

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 06:24:43AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Tobin C. Harding <tobin@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Currently error return from kobject_init_and_add() is not followed by a
> > call to kobject_put().  This means there is a memory leak.
> > 
> > Add call to kobject_put() in error path of kobject_init_and_add().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@...nel.org>
> > ---
> > 
> > Resend with SOB tag.
> 
> Please ignore my previous mail :-)

Cheers Ingo, caught myself not checkpatching :(

thanks,
Tobin.