[PATCH 23/23] sysfs: fix a kobject leak in sysfs_add_link on the error path

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>]

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 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

b3229087c5e08589cea4f5040dab56f7dc11332a
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index fe23f47..d2eac3c 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/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);
-- 
1.2.4


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