commit e94320939f44e0cbaccc3f259a5778abced4949c
author Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Tue Sep 23 23:51:11 2008 +0400
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Thu Oct 16 09:24:41 2008 -0700
tree a613345601872596f498496ad5ba94a29a659ff4
parent 04ab591808565f968d4406f6435090ad671ebdab

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>

kernel/module.c

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 9db1191..d5fcd24 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@
 		while (i-- > 0)
 			sysfs_remove_bin_file(notes_attrs->dir,
 					      &notes_attrs->attrs[i]);
-		kobject_del(notes_attrs->dir);
+		kobject_put(notes_attrs->dir);
 	}
 	kfree(notes_attrs);
 }