Re: [PATCH] More Driver Core patches for 2.6.10-rc1

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

ChangeSet 1.2449.2.7, 2004/11/04 10:55:28-08:00, tj@home-tj.org

[PATCH] driver-model: kobject_add() error path reference counting fix

 df_04_kobject_add_ref_fix.patch

In kobject_add(), @kobj wasn't put'd properly on error path.  This
patch fixes it.


Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@home-tj.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>


 lib/kobject.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)


diff -Nru a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
--- a/lib/kobject.c	2004-11-04 16:30:32 -08:00
+++ b/lib/kobject.c	2004-11-04 16:30:32 -08:00
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@
 		unlink(kobj);
 		if (parent)
 			kobject_put(parent);
+		kobject_put(kobj);
 	} else {
 		kobject_hotplug(kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 	}