[PATCH 4.9 21/26] nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-09-24T12:48:00Z

From: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>

[ Upstream commit a3e181259ddd61fd378390977a1e4e2316853afa ]

The 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/20210629022556.3985106-5-sunnanyong@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1625651306-10829-5-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 eab7bd68da12..31eed118d0ce 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static int nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group(struct the_nilfs *nilfs) \
} \
static void nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group(struct the_nilfs *nilfs) \
{ \
- kobject_del(&nilfs->ns_##parent_name##_subgroups->sg_##name##_kobj); \
+ kobject_put(&nilfs->ns_##parent_name##_subgroups->sg_##name##_kobj); \
}

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