From: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu> commit 6e6c25283dff866308c87b49434c7dbad4774cc0 upstream. kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. Thus, when kobject_init_and_add() returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the kobject. Fixes: 3f8055c35836 ("ACPI / hotplug: Introduce user space interface for hotplug profiles") Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu> Cc: 3.10+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10+ Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> --- drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c index f8150c7bfe88..0a8eb8961770 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c @@ -990,8 +990,10 @@ void acpi_sysfs_add_hotplug_profile(struct acpi_hotplug_profile *hotplug, error = kobject_init_and_add(&hotplug->kobj, &acpi_hotplug_profile_ktype, hotplug_kobj, "%s", name); - if (error) + if (error) { + kobject_put(&hotplug->kobj); goto err_out; + } kobject_uevent(&hotplug->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); return; -- 2.25.1