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Commit ac107356 authored by Alan Stern's avatar Alan Stern Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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fs: sysfs: Fix reference leak in sysfs_break_active_protection()

commit a90bca22

 upstream.

The sysfs_break_active_protection() routine has an obvious reference
leak in its error path.  If the call to kernfs_find_and_get() fails then
kn will be NULL, so the companion sysfs_unbreak_active_protection()
routine won't get called (and would only cause an access violation by
trying to dereference kn->parent if it was called).  As a result, the
reference to kobj acquired at the start of the function will never be
released.

Fix the leak by adding an explicit kobject_put() call when kn is NULL.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Fixes: 2afc9166

 ("scsi: sysfs: Introduce sysfs_{un,}break_active_protection()")
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: default avatarBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8a4d3f0f-c5e3-4b70-a188-0ca433f9e6f9@rowland.harvard.edu


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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