linux-kernel - [PATCH] ALSA: hda: fix potential memleak in 'add_widget

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Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2022 22:45:39 +0800
From:   Ye Bin <yebin@...weicloud.com>
To:     perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.com, alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Cc:     yebin10@...wei.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: fix potential memleak in 'add_widget_node'

From: Ye Bin <yebin10@...wei.com>

As 'kobject_add' may allocated memory for 'kobject->name' when return error.
And in this function, if call 'kobject_add' failed didn't free kobject.
So call 'kobject_put' to recycling resources.

Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@...wei.com>
---
 sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c b/sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c
index e47de49a32e3..62a9615dcf52 100644
--- a/sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c
+++ b/sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c
@@ -346,8 +346,10 @@ static int add_widget_node(struct kobject *parent, hda_nid_t nid,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	kobject_init(kobj, &widget_ktype);
 	err = kobject_add(kobj, parent, "%02x", nid);
-	if (err < 0)
+	if (err < 0) {
+		kobject_put(kobj);
 		return err;
+	}
 	err = sysfs_create_group(kobj, group);
 	if (err < 0) {
 		kobject_put(kobj);
-- 
2.31.1