From b3229087c5e08589cea4f5040dab56f7dc11332a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:44:26 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] sysfs: fix a kobject leak in sysfs_add_link on the
 error path

As pointed out by Oliver Neukum.

Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 fs/sysfs/symlink.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index fe23f47f6e43..d2eac3ceed5f 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ static int sysfs_add_link(struct dentry * parent, const char * name, struct kobj
 	if (!error)
 		return 0;
 
+	kobject_put(target);
 	kfree(sl->link_name);
 exit2:
 	kfree(sl);
-- 
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