On 5/28/20 1:13 PM, wu000...@umn.edu wrote:
> From: Qiushi Wu <wu000...@umn.edu>
>
> kobject_init_and_add() should be handled when it return an error,
> because 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. Thus replace calling
> kfree() by calling kobject_put().
>
> Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000...@umn.edu>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c
> index e4857b728033..a64abe38db2d 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c
> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ iscsi_boot_create_kobj(struct iscsi_boot_kset *boot_kset,
> boot_kobj->kobj.kset = boot_kset->kset;
> if (kobject_init_and_add(&boot_kobj->kobj, &iscsi_boot_ktype,
> NULL, name, index)) {
> - kfree(boot_kobj);
> + kobject_put(&boot_kobj->kobj);
> return NULL;
> }
> boot_kobj->data = data;
>
Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan <ldun...@suse.com>
