sysfs leak fix for error patch

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/driver/sysfs_add_link-kobject-leak-fix.patch b/driver/sysfs_add_link-kobject-leak-fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6057e6e7c9d1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/driver/sysfs_add_link-kobject-leak-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From foo@baz Tue Apr  9 12:12:43 2002
+Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:44:26 -0800
+To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
+From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
+Subject: sysfs: fix a kobject leak in sysfs_add_link on the error path
+
+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(+)
+
+--- gregkh-2.6.orig/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
++++ gregkh-2.6/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);