Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi: Fix reference count leak in iscsi_boot_create_kobj. | From | Lee Duncan <> | Date | Fri, 29 May 2020 08:09:38 -0700 |
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On 5/28/20 1:13 PM, wu000273@umn.edu wrote: > From: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu> > > kobject_init_and_add() should be handled when it return an error, > because kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. > If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to > properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Previous > commit "b8eb718348b8" fixed a similar problem. Thus replace calling > kfree() by calling kobject_put(). > > Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu> > --- > drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c > index e4857b728033..a64abe38db2d 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c > @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ iscsi_boot_create_kobj(struct iscsi_boot_kset *boot_kset, > boot_kobj->kobj.kset = boot_kset->kset; > if (kobject_init_and_add(&boot_kobj->kobj, &iscsi_boot_ktype, > NULL, name, index)) { > - kfree(boot_kobj); > + kobject_put(&boot_kobj->kobj); > return NULL; > } > boot_kobj->data = data; >
Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
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