On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:45 AM <wu000273@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@xxxxxxx>
>
> kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
> If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
> properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Previous
> commit "b8eb718348b8" fixed a similar problem.
>
> Fixes: 158c998ea44b ("ACPI / CPPC: add sysfs support to compute delivered performance")
> Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
> index 8b2e89c20c11..067067bc03d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
> @@ -846,6 +846,7 @@ int acpi_cppc_processor_probe(struct acpi_processor *pr)
> "acpi_cppc");
> if (ret) {
> per_cpu(cpc_desc_ptr, pr->id) = NULL;
> + kobject_put(&cpc_ptr->kobj);
> goto out_free;
> }
>
> --
Applied as 5.8 material, thanks!
