Re: [PATCH] block: fix improper kobject release inblk_integrity_unregister

[Jens Axboe]

On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
> blk_integrity_unregister should use kobject_put to release the kobject,
> otherwise after bi is freed, memory of bi->kobj->name is leaked.

Applied, thanks.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  block/blk-integrity.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-integrity.c b/block/blk-integrity.c
> index 73e28d3..15c6308 100644
> --- a/block/blk-integrity.c
> +++ b/block/blk-integrity.c
> @@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ void blk_integrity_unregister(struct gendisk *disk)
>  
>  	kobject_uevent(&bi->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
>  	kobject_del(&bi->kobj);
> +	kobject_put(&bi->kobj);
>  	kmem_cache_free(integrity_cachep, bi);
>  	disk->integrity = NULL;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.6.2.5
> 

-- 
Jens Axboe

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