[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 5/6] ocfs2: Fix memory leak on mlog_sys_init error path

Patrick Pannuto ppannuto at codeaurora.org
Thu Jul 22 15:09:05 PDT 2010


This leak is the same as the bus path; mlog_kset.kobj.name is
set, but kset_register fails, thus nothing will ever call
kset_unregister and name will be leaked

Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto at codeaurora.org>
---
 fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.c b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.c
index c7fba39..de715d4 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.c
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static struct kset mlog_kset = {
 int mlog_sys_init(struct kset *o2cb_kset)
 {
 	int i = 0;
+	int ret;
 
 	while (mlog_attrs[i].attr.mode) {
 		mlog_attr_ptrs[i] = &mlog_attrs[i].attr;
@@ -163,7 +164,11 @@ int mlog_sys_init(struct kset *o2cb_kset)
 
 	kobject_set_name(&mlog_kset.kobj, "logmask");
 	mlog_kset.kobj.kset = o2cb_kset;
-	return kset_register(&mlog_kset);
+
+	ret = kset_register(&mlog_kset);
+	if (ret)
+		kfree(mlog_kset.kobj.name);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 void mlog_sys_shutdown(void)
-- 
1.7.2




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