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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2008-09-23 15:51:11 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-10-16 12:24:41 -0400
commite94320939f44e0cbaccc3f259a5778abced4949c (patch)
treea613345601872596f498496ad5ba94a29a659ff4 /kernel
parent04ab591808565f968d4406f6435090ad671ebdab (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-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,
1173 while (i-- > 0) 1173 while (i-- > 0)
1174 sysfs_remove_bin_file(notes_attrs->dir, 1174 sysfs_remove_bin_file(notes_attrs->dir,
1175 &notes_attrs->attrs[i]); 1175 &notes_attrs->attrs[i]);
1176 kobject_del(notes_attrs->dir); 1176 kobject_put(notes_attrs->dir);
1177 } 1177 }
1178 kfree(notes_attrs); 1178 kfree(notes_attrs);
1179} 1179}