[PATCH] 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>

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index fe23f47..d2eac3c 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ static int sysfs_add_link(struct dentry * parent, const char * name, struct kobj
        if (!error)
                return 0;
 
+       kobject_put(target);
        kfree(sl->link_name);
 exit2:
        kfree(sl);