linux-kernel - [PATCH] ocfs2: Fix error path kobject memory leak

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Date:   Mon, 13 May 2019 13:34:58 +1000
From:   "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Fasheh <mark@...heh.com>, Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ocfs2: Fix error path kobject memory leak

If a call to kobject_init_and_add() fails we should call kobject_put()
otherwise we leak memory.

Add call to kobject_put() in the error path of call to
kobject_init_and_add().  Please note, this has the side effect that
the release method is called if kobject_init_and_add() fails.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@...nel.org>
---

Is it ok to send patches during the merge window?

Applies on top of Linus' mainline tag: v5.1

Happy to rebase if there are conflicts.

thanks,
Tobin.

 fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c b/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c
index f65f2b2f594d..1906cc962c4d 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ int ocfs2_filecheck_create_sysfs(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
 	ret = kobject_init_and_add(&entry->fs_kobj, &ocfs2_ktype_filecheck,
 					NULL, "filecheck");
 	if (ret) {
+		kobject_put(&entry->fs_kobj);
 		kfree(fcheck);
 		return ret;
 	}
-- 
2.21.0