From aa8ba13cae3134b8ef1c1b6879f66372531da738 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 21:01:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] vfio/mdev: Fix reference count leak in add_mdev_supported_type
Git-commit: aa8ba13cae3134b8ef1c1b6879f66372531da738
Patch-mainline: v5.8-rc1
References: git-fixes
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. Thus,
replace kfree() by kobject_put() to fix this issue. Previous
commit "b8eb718348b8" fixed a similar problem.
Fixes: 7b96953bc640 ("vfio: Mediated device Core driver")
Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c b/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c
index 8ad14e5c02bf..917fd84c1c6f 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static struct mdev_type *add_mdev_supported_type(struct mdev_parent *parent,
"%s-%s", dev_driver_string(parent->dev),
group->name);
if (ret) {
- kfree(type);
+ kobject_put(&type->kobj);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
--
2.16.4