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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2024-03-13 17:43:41 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-04-11 15:16:48 +0200
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fs: sysfs: Fix reference leak in sysfs_break_active_protection()
The sysfs_break_active_protection() routine has an obvious reference leak in its error path. If the call to kernfs_find_and_get() fails then kn will be NULL, so the companion sysfs_unbreak_active_protection() routine won't get called (and would only cause an access violation by trying to dereference kn->parent if it was called). As a result, the reference to kobj acquired at the start of the function will never be released. Fix the leak by adding an explicit kobject_put() call when kn is NULL. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Fixes: 2afc9166f79b ("scsi: sysfs: Introduce sysfs_{un,}break_active_protection()") Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8a4d3f0f-c5e3-4b70-a188-0ca433f9e6f9@rowland.harvard.edu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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