[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] gfs2: Fix error path kobject memory leak

[Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>]

If a call to kobject_init_and_add() fails we must call kobject_put()
otherwise we leak memory.

Function always calls kobject_init_and_add() which always calls
kobject_init().

It is safe to leave object destruction up to the kobject release
function and never free it manually.

Remove call to kfree() and always call kobject_put() in the error path.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
---

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/gfs2/sys.c | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/sys.c b/fs/gfs2/sys.c
index 1787d295834e..98586b139386 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/sys.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/sys.c
@@ -661,8 +661,6 @@ int gfs2_sys_fs_add(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp)
 	if (error)
 		goto fail_reg;
 
-	sysfs_frees_sdp = 1; /* Freeing sdp is now done by sysfs calling
-				function gfs2_sbd_release. */
 	error = sysfs_create_group(&sdp->sd_kobj, &tune_group);
 	if (error)
 		goto fail_reg;
@@ -687,10 +685,7 @@ int gfs2_sys_fs_add(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp)
 fail_reg:
 	free_percpu(sdp->sd_lkstats);
 	fs_err(sdp, "error %d adding sysfs files\n", error);
-	if (sysfs_frees_sdp)
-		kobject_put(&sdp->sd_kobj);
-	else
-		kfree(sdp);
+	kobject_put(&sdp->sd_kobj);
 	sb->s_fs_info = NULL;
 	return error;
 }
-- 
2.21.0