On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 05:52:46AM +0000, Miaoqian Lin wrote:
> kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
> According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()：
>
> If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
> properly clean up the memory associated with the object.
>
> Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().
>
> Fixes: c2e5df616e1a ("vmbus: add per-channel sysfs info")
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> index 17bf55fe3169..9e055697783b 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> @@ -2028,8 +2028,10 @@ int vmbus_add_channel_kobj(struct hv_device *dev, struct vmbus_channel *channel)
> kobj->kset = dev->channels_kset;
> ret = kobject_init_and_add(kobj, &vmbus_chan_ktype, NULL,
> "%u", relid);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> + kobject_put(kobj);
> return ret;
> + }
>
> ret = sysfs_create_group(kobj, &vmbus_chan_group);
If sysfs_create_group() fails same cleanup I think is required.
Later kobject_uevent() may fail according to doc, but there is no error
handling, maybe a good moment to consider adding it and do same cleanup.
>
> --
> 2.17.1
