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Subject: [PATCH 4.19 037/267] ACPI: sysfs: Fix reference count leak in acpi_sysfs_add_hotplug_profile()
Date:   Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:30:22 +0200
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From: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>

commit 6e6c25283dff866308c87b49434c7dbad4774cc0 upstream.

kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
Thus, when kobject_init_and_add() returns an error,
kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the kobject.

Fixes: 3f8055c35836 ("ACPI / hotplug: Introduce user space interface for hotplug profiles")
Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
Cc: 3.10+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/acpi/sysfs.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
@@ -990,8 +990,10 @@ void acpi_sysfs_add_hotplug_profile(stru
 
 	error = kobject_init_and_add(&hotplug->kobj,
 		&acpi_hotplug_profile_ktype, hotplug_kobj, "%s", name);
-	if (error)
+	if (error) {
+		kobject_put(&hotplug->kobj);
 		goto err_out;
+	}
 
 	kobject_uevent(&hotplug->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 	return;