linux-kernel - [PATCH] scsi: Fix reference count leak in iscsi_boot_create

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Message-Id: <20200528201353.14849-1-wu000273@umn.edu>
Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 15:13:53 -0500
From:   wu000273@....edu
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     wu000273@....edu, Lee Duncan <lduncan@...e.com>,
        Chris Leech <cleech@...hat.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        open-iscsi@...glegroups.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: Fix reference count leak in iscsi_boot_create_kobj.

From: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@....edu>

kobject_init_and_add() should be handled when it return an error,
because kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Previous
commit "b8eb718348b8" fixed a similar problem. Thus replace calling
kfree() by calling kobject_put().

Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@....edu>
---
 drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c
index e4857b728033..a64abe38db2d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ iscsi_boot_create_kobj(struct iscsi_boot_kset *boot_kset,
 	boot_kobj->kobj.kset = boot_kset->kset;
 	if (kobject_init_and_add(&boot_kobj->kobj, &iscsi_boot_ktype,
 				 NULL, name, index)) {
-		kfree(boot_kobj);
+		kobject_put(&boot_kobj->kobj);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 	boot_kobj->data = data;
-- 
2.17.1