From 4ddf4739be6e375116c375f0a68bf3893ffcee21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 13:38:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] efi/esrt: Fix reference count leak in esre_create_sysfs_entry.
Git-commit: 4ddf4739be6e375116c375f0a68bf3893ffcee21
Patch-mainline: v5.8-rc3
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. Previous
commit "b8eb718348b8" fixed a similar problem.
Fixes: 0bb549052d33 ("efi: Add esrt support")
Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528183804.4497-1-wu000273@umn.edu
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
index e3d692696583..d5915272141f 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ 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;
}
}
--
2.26.2