linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] Fix kobject error path memleaks

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Date:   Mon, 13 May 2019 13:39:10 +1000
From:   "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>
To:     Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Cc:     "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Fix kobject error path memleaks 

Hi,

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.

While auditing kobject_init_and_add() calls throughout the kernel it was
found that btrfs potentially has a couple of memleaks in the error path
code for kobject_init_and_add().

Failing calls to kobject_init_and_add() should be followed by a call to
kobject_put() since kobject_init_and_add() always calls kobject_init().

Of note, adding kobject_put() causes the release method to be called if
kobject_init_and_add() fails.  For patch #1 this means we don't have to
manually free the space_info or call percpu_counter_destroy() since
these are both done by the release method.  In the second patch, I
believe the added call to kobject_put() fits in with the fs_devices
lifecycle assumptions of open_ctree() but please could you review since
I am new to this code.

CC'ing the kobject maintainers/reviewers also.

Thanks,
Tobin.

Tobin C. Harding (2):
  fs: btrfs: Fix error path kobject memory leak
  fs: btrfs: Don't leak memory when failing add fsid

 fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 3 +--
 fs/btrfs/sysfs.c       | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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