Currently error return from kobject_init_and_add() is not followed by a
call to kobject_put(). This means there is a memory leak.
Add call to kobject_put() in error path of kobject_init_and_add().
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index d30ede89f4a6..84a9d6c06c27 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5756,8 +5756,10 @@ static int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s)
s->kobj.kset = kset;
err = kobject_init_and_add(&s->kobj, &slab_ktype, NULL, "%s", name);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
+ kobject_put(&s->kobj);
goto out;
+ }
err = sysfs_create_group(&s->kobj, &slab_attr_group);
if (err)
--
2.21.0
