From: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com> stable inclusion from stable-v4.19.231 commit 417947891bd5ae327f15efed1a0da2b12ef24962 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/src-openeuler/kernel/issues/IADGF1 CVE: CVE-2022-48775 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- [ Upstream commit 8bc69f86328e87a0ffa79438430cc82f3aa6a194 ] kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()： If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put(). Fixes: c2e5df616e1a ("vmbus: add per-channel sysfs info") Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Juan Vazquez <juvazq@linux.microsoft.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220203173008.43480-1-linmq006@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Conflicts: drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c [LST patch b57705c0ec not merge to this branch] Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiaoxu <zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com> --- drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c index 9aa18f387a34..796764ff8581 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c +++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c @@ -1468,8 +1468,10 @@ int vmbus_add_channel_kobj(struct hv_device *dev, struct vmbus_channel *channel) kobj->kset = dev->channels_kset; ret = kobject_init_and_add(kobj, &vmbus_chan_ktype, NULL, "%u", relid); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + kobject_put(kobj); return ret; + } kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_ADD); -- 2.34.1