[Patch -mm] kobject: kobject_add() reference leak

[Cornelia Huck]

<This patch is the "pathological case" in the referenced mail.>

We leak a reference if we attempt to add a kobject with no name.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
 lib/kobject.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- linux-2.6.21-rc6-mm1.orig/lib/kobject.c
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc6-mm1/lib/kobject.c
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ int kobject_shadow_add(struct kobject * 
 	if (!*kobj->k_name) {
 		pr_debug("kobject attempted to be registered with no name!\n");
 		WARN_ON(1);
+		kobject_put(kobj);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 	parent = kobject_get(kobj->parent);
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