firmware: Fix a reference count leak.
authorQiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
Sat, 13 Jun 2020 19:05:33 +0000 (14:05 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 13:35:37 +0000 (15:35 +0200)
commit44c8b477fe201c8923ea146d2a4c1d64a8c17d9c
tree656e190e5674b9fff955fd8c1ade811337dd586f
parent7d415ec14c613f038ab4974886ebb503b1e54ff1
firmware: Fix a reference count leak.

[ Upstream commit fe3c60684377d5ad9b0569b87ed3e26e12c8173b ]

kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
properly clean up the memory associated with the object.
Callback function fw_cfg_sysfs_release_entry() in kobject_put()
can handle the pointer "entry" properly.

Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200613190533.15712-1-wu000273@umn.edu
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c