Commit 8bc69f86 authored Feb 04, 2022 by Miaoqian Lin Committed by Wei Liu Feb 07, 2022

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj



kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()：

   If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
   properly clean up the memory associated with the object.

Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().

Fixes: c2e5df61 ("vmbus: add per-channel sysfs info")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Vazquez <juvazq@linux.microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220203173008.43480-1-linmq006@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>

parent 3149efcd

drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c

+4 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2028,8 +2028,10 @@ int vmbus_add_channel_kobj(struct hv_device dev, struct vmbus_channel channel)
		kobj->kset = dev->channels_kset;
		ret = kobject_init_and_add(kobj, &vmbus_chan_ktype, NULL,
		"%u", relid);
		if (ret)
		if (ret) {
		kobject_put(kobj);
		return ret;
		}

		ret = sysfs_create_group(kobj, &vmbus_chan_group);

		@@ -2038,6 +2040,7 @@ int vmbus_add_channel_kobj(struct hv_device dev, struct vmbus_channel channel)
		* The calling functions' error handling paths will cleanup the
		* empty channel directory.
		*/
		kobject_put(kobj);
		dev_err(device, "Unable to set up channel sysfs files\n");
		return ret;
		}