From: Nanyong Sun sunnanyong@huawei.com
[ Upstream commit 24f8cb1ed057c840728167dab33b32e44147c86f ]
If kobject_init_and_add return with error, kobject_put() is needed here to avoid memory leak, because kobject_init_and_add may return error without freeing the memory associated with the kobject it allocated.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210629022556.3985106-4-sunnanyong@huawei.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1625651306-10829-4-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@... Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun sunnanyong@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c index 43f660beb9b4..5dc468ff5903 100644 --- a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c +++ b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c @@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ static int nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group(struct the_nilfs *nilfs) \ err = kobject_init_and_add(kobj, &nilfs_##name##_ktype, parent, \ #name); \ if (err) \ - return err; \ - return 0; \ + kobject_put(kobj); \ + return err; \ } \ static void nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group(struct the_nilfs *nilfs) \ { \