From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix kobject memleak
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:42:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190430084210.GA11737@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190430010923.17092-1-tobin@kernel.org>
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:09:23AM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Currently error return from kobject_init_and_add() is not followed by a
> call to kobject_put(). This means there is a memory leak.
>
> Add call to kobject_put() in error path of kobject_init_and_add().
>
> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-30 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-30 1:09 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix kobject memleak Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-30 8:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-04-30 20:37 ` Tyrel Datwyler
2019-05-03 6:59 ` Michael Ellerman
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