2023-08-23 14:16:46

by Michael Ellerman

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()

On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:19:29 +0800, ruanjinjie wrote:
> If device_register() returns error in ibmebus_bus_init(), name of kobject
> which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked.
>
> As comment of device_add() says, it should call put_device() to drop
> the reference count that was set in device_initialize() when it fails,
> so the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup().
>
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/afda85b963c12947e298ad85d757e333aa40fd74

cheers