Inject fault while loading module (e.g. edac_core.ko), kset_register() may fail in bus_register(), if it fails, but the refcount of kobject is not decreased to 0, the name allocated in kobject_set_name() is leaked. To fix this by calling kset_put(), so that name can be freed in callback function kobject_cleanup(). unreferenced object 0xffff888103bddb68 (size 8): comm "systemd-udevd", pid 341, jiffies 4294903262 (age 42.212s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 65 64 61 63 00 00 00 00 edac.... backtrace: [<000000009e31d566>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1ae/0x320 [<00000000e4cfd8de>] kstrdup+0x3a/0x70 [<000000003d0ec369>] kstrdup_const+0x68/0x80 [<000000008e5c3b20>] kvasprintf_const+0x10b/0x190 [<00000000b9a945aa>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150 [<000000000df9278c>] kobject_set_name+0xab/0xe0 [<00000000f51dc49f>] bus_register+0x132/0x350 [<000000007d91c2e5>] subsys_register+0x23/0x220 Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/bus.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c index 7ca47e5b3c1f..301b5330f9d8 100644 --- a/drivers/base/bus.c +++ b/drivers/base/bus.c @@ -804,8 +804,10 @@ int bus_register(struct bus_type *bus) priv->drivers_autoprobe = 1; retval = kset_register(&priv->subsys); - if (retval) + if (retval) { + kset_put(&priv->subsys); goto out; + } retval = bus_create_file(bus, &bus_attr_uevent); if (retval) -- 2.25.1