From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: npiggin@gmail.com, christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu, windhl@126.com,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ruanjinjie <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2023 21:55:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <169279175567.797584.15288361947822567301.b4-ty@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221110011929.3709774-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-23 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-10 1:19 [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init() ruanjinjie
2022-11-10 1:19 ` ruanjinjie
2023-08-23 11:55 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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