firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix kobject leak in probe error path
An initialised kobject must be freed using kobject_put() to avoid leaking associated resources (e.g. the object name). Commit fe3c6068 ("firmware: Fix a reference count leak.") "fixed" the leak in the first error path of the file registration helper but left the second one unchanged. This "fix" would however result in a NULL pointer dereference due to the release function also removing the never added entry from the fw_cfg_entry_cache list. This has now been addressed. Fix the remaining kobject leak by restoring the common error path and adding the missing kobject_put(). Fixes: 75f3e8e4 ("firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.6 Cc: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201132528.30025-3-johan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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