linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_chargalg_sysfs

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Date:   Sat, 29 Jan 2022 01:53:42 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@...il.com>
Cc:     Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_chargalg_sysfs_init

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 6:33 PM Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@...il.com> wrote:

> kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
> According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()
>
>    If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
>    properly clean up the memory associated with the object.
>
> Fix this issue by adding kobject_put().
>
> Fixes: c5b64a990e7f ("power: supply: ab8500: Rename charging algorithm symbols")

Really? I think this code is older.

> @@ -1907,8 +1907,10 @@ static int ab8500_chargalg_sysfs_init(struct ab8500_chargalg *di)
>         ret = kobject_init_and_add(&di->chargalg_kobject,
>                 &ab8500_chargalg_ktype,
>                 NULL, "ab8500_chargalg");
> -       if (ret < 0)
> +       if (ret < 0) {
>                 dev_err(di->dev, "failed to create sysfs entry\n");
> +               kobject_put(&di->chargalg_kobject);
> +       }

I wouldn't bother with this.

This code is getting deleted in this patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20220129004925.639684-10-linus.walleij@linaro.org/T/#u

Yours,
Linus Walleij