Re: [PATCH] Fix possible kobject reference counter leak in kobject_rename()

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:31:48PM +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found a possible kobject reference counter leak problem in
> kobject_rename(). The following patch will fix it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kenji Kaneshige
> 
> 
> Fix possible kobject reference counter leak in kobject_rename().
> 
> If kobject_rename() failed because of name collision, we must call
> kobject_put() for specified kobject before return.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
> 
> ---
>  lib/kobject.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.27-rc4/lib/kobject.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.27-rc4.orig/lib/kobject.c
> +++ linux-2.6.27-rc4/lib/kobject.c
> @@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ int kobject_rename(struct kobject *kobj,
>  			       "to '%s' as '%s' is already in existence.\n",
>  			       kobject_name(kobj), new_name, new_name);
>  			kobject_put(temp_kobj);
> +			kobject_put(kobj);
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  		}
>  	}

Thanks, but this is already fixed up with a patch from Eric in my tree
in a different way.

greg k-h