From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] livepatch: Fix kobject memleak
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:42:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190430084254.GB11737@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190430001534.26246-2-tobin@kernel.org>
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:15:33AM +1000, 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 <tobin@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-30 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-30 0:15 [PATCH 0/2] livepatch: Fix usage of kobject_init_and_add() Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-30 0:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] livepatch: Fix kobject memleak Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-30 8:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-04-30 10:44 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-04-30 10:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-04-30 22:39 ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-30 14:56 ` Petr Mladek
2019-04-30 15:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-04-30 0:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] livepatch: Use correct kobject cleanup function Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-30 8:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-04-30 11:00 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-04-30 21:38 ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-04-30 15:08 ` Petr Mladek
2019-04-30 21:37 ` Tobin C. Harding
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