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        Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH] efi/esrt: Fix reference count leak in esre_create_sysfs_entry.
Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 13:38:04 -0500
Message-Id: <20200528183804.4497-1-wu000273@umn.edu>
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From: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>

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>
---
 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;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.17.1