Inject fault while loading module (e.g. qemu_fw_cfg.ko), kset_register() may fail in kset_create_and_add(), if it fails, but the refcount of kobject is not decreased to 0, the name allocated in kset_create() is leaked. To fix this by calling kset_put(), so that name can be freed in callback function kobject_cleanup() and kset can be freed in kset_release(). unreferenced object 0xffff888103cc8c08 (size 8): comm "modprobe", pid 508, jiffies 4294915182 (age 120.020s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 62 79 5f 6e 61 6d 65 00 by_name. backtrace: [<00000000572f97f9>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1ae/0x320 [<00000000a167a5cc>] kstrdup+0x3a/0x70 [<000000001cd0d05e>] kstrdup_const+0x68/0x80 [<00000000b9101e6d>] kvasprintf_const+0x10b/0x190 [<0000000088f2b8df>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150 [<000000003f8aca68>] kobject_set_name+0xab/0xe0 [<00000000249f7816>] kset_create_and_add+0x72/0x200 Fixes: b727c702896f ("kset: add kset_create_and_add function") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/kobject.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 6da04353d974..e77f37200876 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -985,7 +985,7 @@ struct kset *kset_create_and_add(const char *name, return NULL; error = kset_register(kset); if (error) { - kfree(kset); + kset_put(kset); return NULL; } return kset; -- 2.25.1