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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2008-09-23 21:51:11 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-10-16 18:24:41 +0200
commite94320939f44e0cbaccc3f259a5778abced4949c (patch)
treea613345601872596f498496ad5ba94a29a659ff4 /kernel/module.c
parentMerge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus (diff)
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modules: fix module "notes" kobject leak
Fix "notes" kobject leak It happens every rmmod if KALLSYMS=y and SYSFS=y. # modprobe foo kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'module', set: 'module' kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'foo', set: '<NULL>' kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_uevent_env kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): fill_kobj_path: path = '/module/foo' kobject: 'notes' (ffff88017fa9b668): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'foo', set: '<NULL>' ^^^^^ # rmmod foo kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): kobject_cleanup kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): auto cleanup kobject_del kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): calling ktype release kobject: (ffff88017e7c5770): dynamic_kobj_release kobject: 'holders': free name kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_cleanup kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): auto cleanup 'remove' event kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_uevent_env kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): fill_kobj_path: path = '/module/foo' kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): auto cleanup kobject_del kobject: 'foo': free name [whooops] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 9db11911e04b..d5fcd24e5aff 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@ static void free_notes_attrs(struct module_notes_attrs *notes_attrs,
while (i-- > 0)
sysfs_remove_bin_file(notes_attrs->dir,
&notes_attrs->attrs[i]);
- kobject_del(notes_attrs->dir);
+ kobject_put(notes_attrs->dir);
}
kfree(notes_attrs);
}