linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cxl: Fix kobject memory leak in cxl_sysfs_afu_new

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Date:   Tue, 2 Jun 2020 19:20:32 +0200
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Wang Hai <wanghai38@...wei.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxl: Fix kobject memory leak in cxl_sysfs_afu_new_cr()

> Fix it by adding a call to kobject_put() in the error path of
> kobject_init_and_add().

Thanks for another completion of the exception handling.

Would an other patch subject be a bit nicer?


…
> +++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/sysfs.c
> @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ static struct afu_config_record *cxl_sysfs_afu_new_cr(struct cxl_afu *afu, int c
>  	rc = kobject_init_and_add(&cr->kobj, &afu_config_record_type,
>  				  &afu->dev.kobj, "cr%i", cr->cr);
>  	if (rc)
> -		goto err;
> +		goto err1;
…

Can an other label be more reasonable here?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst?id=f359287765c04711ff54fbd11645271d8e5ff763#n465

Regards,
Markus