From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 16:15:49 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: efi/efivars: Add missing kobject_put() in sysfs entry creation error path
X-Git-Tag: v5.15~3781^2~1^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d8bd8c6e2cfab8b78b537715255be8d7557791c0;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-starfive.git

efi/efivars: Add missing kobject_put() in sysfs entry creation error path

The documentation provided by kobject_init_and_add() clearly spells out
the need to call kobject_put() on the kobject if an error is returned.
Add this missing call to the error path.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: 亿一 <teroincn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
index 78ad1ba..26528a4 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c
@@ -522,8 +522,10 @@ efivar_create_sysfs_entry(struct efivar_entry *new_var)
 	ret = kobject_init_and_add(&new_var->kobj, &efivar_ktype,
 				   NULL, "%s", short_name);
 	kfree(short_name);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		kobject_put(&new_var->kobj);
 		return ret;
+	}
 
 	kobject_uevent(&new_var->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 	if (efivar_entry_add(new_var, &efivar_sysfs_list)) {