Re: [PATCH] nilfs2: Fix reference count leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group.

[Ryusuke Konishi]

Andrew,

Apply this, please.

Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 4:55 AM <wu000273@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@xxxxxxx>
>
> kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
> If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
> properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Previous
> commit "b8eb718348b8" fixed a similar problem.
>
> Fixes: a5a7332a291b ("nilfs2: add /sys/fs/nilfs2/<device>/mounted_snapshots/<snapshot>group")
> Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
> index e60be7bb55b0..b2517c5e773a 100644
> --- a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
> +++ b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
> @@ -209,8 +209,10 @@ int nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group(struct nilfs_root *root)
>                                             "%llu", root->cno);
>         }
>
> -       if (err)
> +       if (err) {
> +               kobject_put(&root->snapshot_kobj);
>                 return err;
> +       }
>
>         return 0;
>  }
> --
> 2.17.1
>