This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
efi/esrt: Fix reference count leak in esre_create_sysfs_entry.
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
efi-esrt-fix-reference-count-leak-in-esre_create_sys.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit a9b4a6ee6182fcc8d425adf40b200beae8236139
Author: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu May 28 13:38:04 2020 -0500
efi/esrt: Fix reference count leak in esre_create_sysfs_entry.
[ Upstream commit 4ddf4739be6e375116c375f0a68bf3893ffcee21 ]
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: 0bb549052d33 ("efi: Add esrt support")
Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528183804.4497-1-wu000273@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
index 241dd7c63d2c8..481b2f0a190b0 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static int esre_create_sysfs_entry(void *esre, int entry_num)
rc = kobject_init_and_add(&entry->kobj, &esre1_ktype, NULL,
"entry%d", entry_num);
if (rc) {
- kfree(entry);
+ kobject_put(&entry->kobj);
return rc;
}
}
