Ocfs2 devel - May 2019 - [PATCH] ocfs2: Fix error path kobject memory leak

On 19/5/13 11:34, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> If a call to kobject_init_and_add() fails we should call kobject_put()
> otherwise we leak memory.
> 
> Add call to kobject_put() in the error path of call to
> kobject_init_and_add().  Please note, this has the side effect that
> the release method is called if kobject_init_and_add() fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi at
linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> 
> Is it ok to send patches during the merge window?
> 
> Applies on top of Linus' mainline tag: v5.1
> 
> Happy to rebase if there are conflicts.
> 
> thanks,
> Tobin.
> 
>  fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c b/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c
> index f65f2b2f594d..1906cc962c4d 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c
> @@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ int ocfs2_filecheck_create_sysfs(struct ocfs2_super
*osb)
>  	ret = kobject_init_and_add(&entry->fs_kobj,
&ocfs2_ktype_filecheck,
>  					NULL, "filecheck");
>  	if (ret) {
> +		kobject_put(&entry->fs_kobj);
>  		kfree(fcheck);
>  		return ret;
>  	}
>