Re: [PATCH] driver core: bus: Free the kobject.name if kset_register fails

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 05:05:21PM +0800, Chen Lin Z wrote:
> if register two bus with the same name, kset_register will fail.
> it need free kobject.name, otherwise there is a memory leak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Lin Z <lin.z.chen@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/bus.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
> index 79bc203..9375048 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
> @@ -894,8 +894,10 @@ int bus_register(struct bus_type *bus)
>  	priv->drivers_autoprobe = 1;
>  
>  	retval = kset_register(&priv->subsys);
> -	if (retval)
> +	if (retval) {
> +		kfree(priv->subsys.kobj.name);

This doesn't solve the problem properly, as all of the other error paths
also need to free this memory.

And I really hate to poke around this "deep" into the kobject core, but
I understand it's needed here :(

thanks,

greg k-h