[PATCH 1/1] solve memory leak for uio

From: Cong Ding
Date: Wed Nov 28 2012 - 20:11:03 EST


we have to call kobject_put() to clean up the kobject after function
kobject_init(), kobject_add(), or kobject_uevent() is called.

Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/uio/uio.c | 8 +++++---
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c
index 5110f36..40566fd 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
@@ -317,16 +317,18 @@ static int uio_dev_add_attributes(struct uio_device *idev)
ret = kobject_add(&portio->kobj, idev->portio_dir,
"port%d", pi);
if (ret)
- goto err_portio;
+ goto err_portio_kobj;
ret = kobject_uevent(&portio->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
if (ret)
- goto err_portio;
+ goto err_portio_kobj;
}

return 0;

err_portio:
- for (pi--; pi >= 0; pi--) {
+ pi--;
+err_portio_kobj:
+ for (; pi >= 0; pi--) {
port = &idev->info->port[pi];
portio = port->portio;
kobject_put(&portio->kobj);
--
1.7.4.5

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