netdev - Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in rx|netdev_queue_add

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Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:10:13 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jouni.hogander@...kie.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, lukas.bulwahn@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in
 rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject

From: jouni.hogander@...kie.com
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 09:08:16 +0200

> From: Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@...kie.com>
> 
> kobject_init_and_add takes reference even when it fails. This has
> to be given up by the caller in error handling. Otherwise memory
> allocated by kobject_init_and_add is never freed. Originally found
> by Syzkaller:
> 
> BUG: memory leak
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@...kie.com>

Applied, thank you.