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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jouni.hogander@unikie.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:13:33 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191119.171333.624799505921966746.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191119095121.6295-1-jouni.hogander@unikie.com>

From: jouni.hogander@unikie.com
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:51:21 +0200

> kobject_init_and_add takes reference even when it fails.

I see this in the comment above kobject_init_and_add() but not in the
code.

Where does the implementation of kobject_init_and_add() actually take
such a reference?

Did you discover this by code inspection, or by an actual bug that was
triggered?  If by an actual bug, please provide the OOPS and/or checker
trace that indicated a leak was happening here.

I don't see anything actually wrong here because kobject_init_and_add()
doesn't actually seem to do what it's comment suggests...

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-20  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-19  9:51 [PATCH] net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject jouni.hogander
2019-11-20  1:13 ` David Miller [this message]
2019-11-20  6:59   ` Jouni Högander
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-11-20  7:08 jouni.hogander
2019-11-20 20:10 ` David Miller
2019-11-21  3:12   ` Eric Dumazet

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