Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched/cpufreq: Fix kobject memleak

[Tobin C. Harding]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 06:24:43AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Tobin C. Harding  wrote:
> 
> > 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 
> > ---
> > 
> > Resend with SOB tag.
> 
> Please ignore my previous mail :-)

Cheers Ingo, caught myself not checkpatching :(

thanks,
Tobin.

Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched/cpufreq: Fix kobject memleak

[Ingo Molnar]

* Tobin C. Harding  wrote:

> 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 
> ---
> 
> Resend with SOB tag.

Please ignore my previous mail :-)

Thanks,

Ingo

[PATCH RESEND] sched/cpufreq: Fix kobject memleak

[Tobin C. Harding]

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 
---

Resend with SOB tag.

 kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
index 5c41ea367422..3638d2377e3c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
@@ -771,6 +771,7 @@ static int sugov_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
return 0;
 
 fail:
+   kobject_put(>attr_set.kobj);
policy->governor_data = NULL;
sugov_tunables_free(tunables);
 
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