Re: [PATCH] scsi: Fix reference count leak in iscsi_boot_create_kobj()

From: Markus Elfring
Date: Fri May 29 2020 - 06:09:32 EST


> kobject_init_and_add() should be handled when it return an error,
> because kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.

I find this wording approach improvable.


> Previous commit "b8eb718348b8" fixed a similar problem.

I suggest to omit this information from the commit message.


> Thus replace calling kfree() by calling kobject_put().

How do you think about a wording variant like the following?

Thus replace a call of the function âkfreeâ by âkobject_putâ
because of using kernel objects in the proper way.


Please take another look also at the message field âToâ.
Which recipients should be specified there first?

Regards,
Markus