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        Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>,
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        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 26/34] nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group
Date:   Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:44:20 +0200
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From: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>

[ Upstream commit 24f8cb1ed057c840728167dab33b32e44147c86f ]

If kobject_init_and_add return with error, kobject_put() is needed here to
avoid memory leak, because kobject_init_and_add may return error without
freeing the memory associated with the kobject it allocated.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210629022556.3985106-4-sunnanyong@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1625651306-10829-4-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
index ca720d958315..31d640a87b59 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/sysfs.c
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ static int nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group(struct the_nilfs *nilfs) \
 	err = kobject_init_and_add(kobj, &nilfs_##name##_ktype, parent, \
 				    #name); \
 	if (err) \
-		return err; \
-	return 0; \
+		kobject_put(kobj); \
+	return err; \
 } \
 static void nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group(struct the_nilfs *nilfs) \
 { \
-- 
2.33.0