Re: [PATCH v3] drm/amd: Fix memory leak according to error branch

[Julia Lawall]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:

> > The function kobject_init_and_add alloc memory like:
> > kobject_init_and_add->kobject_add_varg->kobject_set_name_vargs
> > ->kvasprintf_const->kstrdup_const->kstrdup->kmalloc_track_caller
> > ->kmalloc_slab, in err branch this memory not free. If use
> > kmemleak, this path maybe catched.
> > These changes are to add kobject_put in kobject_init_and_add
> > failed branch, fix potential memleak.
> â
> > Changes since V2:
> > *remove duplicate kobject_put in kfd_procfs_init.
>
> Under which circumstances are going to improve this change description accordingly?

Bernard, please update the log message as well.  The mail you sent was
much more clear, but mail just gets lost over time.  The log message
itself should be improved.

julia

>
> Would you like to add the tag âFixesâ to the commit message?
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>