From foo@baz Tue Apr  9 12:12:43 2002
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:44:26 -0800
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: 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(+)

--- gregkh-2.6.orig/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ gregkh-2.6/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ static int sysfs_add_link(struct dentry 
 	if (!error)
 		return 0;
 
+	kobject_put(target);
 	kfree(sl->link_name);
 exit2:
 	kfree(sl);