| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 5.18 075/339] firmware: dmi-sysfs: Fix memory leak in dmi_sysfs_register_handle | Date | Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:08:20 +0200 |
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From: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit 660ba678f9998aca6db74f2dd912fa5124f0fa31 ]
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 this issue by calling kobject_put().
Fixes: 948af1f0bbc8 ("firmware: Basic dmi-sysfs support") Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511071421.9769-1-linmq006@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> --- drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c index 3a353776bd34..66727ad3361b 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi-sysfs.c @@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ static void __init dmi_sysfs_register_handle(const struct dmi_header *dh, "%d-%d", dh->type, entry->instance); if (*ret) { - kfree(entry); + kobject_put(&entry->kobj); return; } -- 2.35.1
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