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ocfs2: fix error path kobject memory leak

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If a call to kobject_init_and_add() fails we should call kobject_put()
otherwise we leak memory.

Add call to kobject_put() in the error path of call to
kobject_init_and_add().  Please note, this has the side effect that the
release method is called if kobject_init_and_add() fails.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190513033458.2824-1-tobin@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@live.cn>
Cc: Gang He <ghe@suse.com>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tobin C. Harding 2019-05-31 22:30:29 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3e85899637
commit b9fba67b38
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@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ int ocfs2_filecheck_create_sysfs(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
ret = kobject_init_and_add(&entry->fs_kobj, &ocfs2_ktype_filecheck,
NULL, "filecheck");
if (ret) {
kobject_put(&entry->fs_kobj);
kfree(fcheck);
return ret;
}