The call to kvm_put_kvm was removed from error handling in commit
506cfba9e726 ("KVM: don't use anon_inode_getfd() before possible
failures"), but it is _not_ a memory leak. Reuse Al's explanation
to avoid that someone else makes the same mistake.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 3863cf7ae1a3..19f0ecb9b93e 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -3191,6 +3191,12 @@ static int kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm(unsigned long type)
return PTR_ERR(file);
}
+ /*
+ * Don't call kvm_put_kvm anymore at this point; file->f_op is
+ * already set, with ->release() being kvm_vm_release(). In error
+ * cases it will be called by the final fput(file) and will take
+ * care of doing kvm_put_kvm(kvm).
+ */
if (kvm_create_vm_debugfs(kvm, r) < 0) {
put_unused_fd(r);
fput(file);
--
1.8.3.1
