This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled RDMA/rtrs: Call kobject_put in the failure path to the 5.11-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: rdma-rtrs-call-kobject_put-in-the-failure-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 151cce02402899376a2b8538ac342a13f3a2eccd Author: Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Dec 17 15:19:03 2020 +0100 RDMA/rtrs: Call kobject_put in the failure path [ Upstream commit 424774c9f3fa100ef7d9cfb9ee211e2ba1cd5119 ] Per the comment of kobject_init_and_add, we need to free the memory by call kobject_put. Fixes: 215378b838df ("RDMA/rtrs: client: sysfs interface functions") Fixes: 91b11610af8d ("RDMA/rtrs: server: sysfs interface functions") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201217141915.56989-8-jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Md Haris Iqbal <haris.iqbal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt-sysfs.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt-sysfs.c index ba00f0de14caa..ad77659800cd2 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt-sysfs.c @@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ int rtrs_clt_create_sess_files(struct rtrs_clt_sess *sess) "%s", str); if (err) { pr_err("kobject_init_and_add: %d\n", err); + kobject_put(&sess->kobj); return err; } err = sysfs_create_group(&sess->kobj, &rtrs_clt_sess_attr_group); @@ -419,6 +420,7 @@ int rtrs_clt_create_sess_files(struct rtrs_clt_sess *sess) &sess->kobj, "stats"); if (err) { pr_err("kobject_init_and_add: %d\n", err); + kobject_put(&sess->stats->kobj_stats); goto remove_group; } diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c index cca3a0acbabc5..0a3886629cae8 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c @@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ static int rtrs_srv_create_stats_files(struct rtrs_srv_sess *sess) &sess->kobj, "stats"); if (err) { rtrs_err(s, "kobject_init_and_add(): %d\n", err); + kobject_put(&sess->stats->kobj_stats); return err; } err = sysfs_create_group(&sess->stats->kobj_stats, @@ -292,8 +293,8 @@ int rtrs_srv_create_sess_files(struct rtrs_srv_sess *sess) sysfs_remove_group(&sess->kobj, &rtrs_srv_sess_attr_group); put_kobj: kobject_del(&sess->kobj); - kobject_put(&sess->kobj); destroy_root: + kobject_put(&sess->kobj); rtrs_srv_destroy_once_sysfs_root_folders(sess); return err;