[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 19/19] nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group

Sasha Levin
2021-09-13T22:37:28Z

From: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>

[ Upstream commit 17243e1c3072b8417a5ebfc53065d0a87af7ca77 ]

kobject_put() should be used to cleanup the memory associated with the
kobject instead of kobject_del(). See the section "Kobject removal" of
"Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst".

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210629022556.3985106-7-sunnanyong@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1625651306-10829-7-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
index 44b9ad70a564..57afd06db62d 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ int nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group(struct nilfs_root *root)

void nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group(struct nilfs_root *root)
{
- kobject_del(&root->snapshot_kobj);
+ kobject_put(&root->snapshot_kobj);
}

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