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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rafael@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject: fix possible memory leak in kset_create_and_add()
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:49:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y00XKw+Vs5Bo8jkZ@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c2e91e1-dd07-8a4b-999c-9a2d26ee5f07@huawei.com>

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 04:13:03PM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2022/10/17 12:51, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 10:33:27AM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> > > If kset_register() fails in kset_create_and_add(), the name allocated
> > > in kset_create() will be leaked.
> > How is kset_create_and_add() failing?  Is this in a real kernel, or
> > created with a fake fault injection?
> Inject fault while probing module qemu_fw_cfg, kset_create_and_add() may
> fail.

Ah good, it's never being hit in a real situation.  The next time you
submit patches that are found like this, please include this type of
information.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-17  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-17  2:33 [PATCH] kobject: fix possible memory leak in kset_create_and_add() Yang Yingliang
2022-10-17  4:51 ` Greg KH
2022-10-17  8:13   ` Yang Yingliang
2022-10-17  8:49     ` Greg KH [this message]
2022-10-17  9:01       ` Yang Yingliang
2022-10-17  9:08         ` Greg KH

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