From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:35:27 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: kobject: kobject_add() reference leak
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kobject: kobject_add() reference leak

We leak a reference if we attempt to add a kobject with no name.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index db1d23707eb1..eb251aae78dd 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ int kobject_shadow_add(struct kobject * kobj, struct dentry *shadow_parent)
 	if (!*kobj->k_name) {
 		pr_debug("kobject attempted to be registered with no name!\n");
 		WARN_ON(1);
+		kobject_put(kobj);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 	parent = kobject_get(kobj->parent);