ACPI: CPPC: Fix reference count leak in acpi_cppc_processor_probe()
authorQiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
Wed, 27 May 2020 22:35:51 +0000 (17:35 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 08:24:09 +0000 (10:24 +0200)
commit17cac70bdf319d85e6f4ba78f686c06ee55f86cf
tree98d4f2e9154ade35c4260e73d5894c18247d2064
parentbdce493344432a5ce4afa45e6ec8d14edd8dd468
ACPI: CPPC: Fix reference count leak in acpi_cppc_processor_probe()

commit 4d8be4bc94f74bb7d096e1c2e44457b530d5a170 upstream.

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: 158c998ea44b ("ACPI / CPPC: add sysfs support to compute delivered performance")
Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
Cc: 4.10+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.10+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c