Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:27:05 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
       Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
       torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
       Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>, Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
       Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: [patch 09/20] sysfs: fix a kobject leak in sysfs_add_link on the error path
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-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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As pointed out by Oliver Neukum.

Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---

 fs/sysfs/symlink.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

b3229087c5e08589cea4f5040dab56f7dc11332a
--- linux-2.6.16.orig/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ linux-2.6.16/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ static int sysfs_add_link(struct dentry 
 	if (!error)
 		return 0;
 
+	kobject_put(target);
 	kfree(sl->link_name);
 exit2:
 	kfree(sl);

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