From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>,
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: [patch 09/20] sysfs: fix a kobject leak in sysfs_add_link on the error path
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:27:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060325042705.GJ21260@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060325042556.GA21260@kroah.com>
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-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------
As pointed out by Oliver Neukum.
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
fs/sysfs/symlink.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
b3229087c5e08589cea4f5040dab56f7dc11332a
--- linux-2.6.16.orig/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ linux-2.6.16/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ static int sysfs_add_link(struct dentry
if (!error)
return 0;
+ kobject_put(target);
kfree(sl->link_name);
exit2:
kfree(sl);
--
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-25 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-03-25 4:25 ` [patch 00/20] 2.6.16.1 Stable review Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:26 ` [patch 01/20] sata_mv: fix irq port status usage Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:26 ` [patch 02/20] V4L/DVB (3324): Fix Samsung tuner frequency ranges Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:26 ` [patch 03/20] Kconfig: VIDEO_DECODER must select FW_LOADER Greg KH
2006-03-25 13:23 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-03-25 4:26 ` [patch 04/20] 2.6.xx: sata_mv: another critical fix Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:26 ` [patch 05/20] TCP: Do not use inet->id of global tcp_socket when sending RST (CVE-2006-1242) Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:26 ` [patch 06/20] sysfs: sysfs_remove_dir() needs to invalidate the dentry Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:26 ` [patch 07/20] firmware: fix BUG: in fw_realloc_buffer Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:27 ` [patch 08/20] get_cpu_sysdev() signedness fix Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:27 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-03-25 4:27 ` [patch 10/20] XFS writeout fix Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:27 ` [patch 11/20] NET: Ensure device name passed to SO_BINDTODEVICE is NULL terminated Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:27 ` [patch 12/20] i810fb_cursor(): use GFP_ATOMIC Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:27 ` [patch 13/20] v9fs: assign dentry ops to negative dentries Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:27 ` [patch 14/20] dm: bio split bvec fix Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:27 ` [patch 15/20] rtc.h broke strace(1) builds Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:27 ` [patch 16/20] proc: fix duplicate line in /proc/devices Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:27 ` [patch 17/20] fix scheduler deadlock Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:27 ` [patch 18/20] DM: Fix bug: BIO_RW_BARRIER requests to md/raid1 hang Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:28 ` [patch 19/20] cciss: fix use-after-free in cciss_init_one Greg KH
2006-03-25 4:28 ` [patch 20/20] DMI: fix DMI onboard device discovery Greg KH
2006-03-25 6:48 ` [patch 21/20] Fix speedstep-smi assembly bug in speedstep_smi_ownership Greg KH
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