Re: [PATCH] cxl: Fix kobject memleak

From: Andrew Donnellan
Date: Wed Jun 03 2020 - 07:34:40 EST


On 2/6/20 10:07 pm, Wang Hai wrote:
Currently the error return path from kobject_init_and_add() is not
followed by a call to kobject_put() - which means we are leaking
the kobject.

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

Fixes: b087e6190ddc ("cxl: Export optional AFU configuration record in sysfs")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the fix!

I note that the err1 label returns without calling kfree(cr) and I can't see a reason why we do that - so perhaps we should remove the return statement in err1: so it falls through?

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Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx IBM Australia Limited