An initialised kobject must be freed using kobject_put() to avoid
leaking associated resources (e.g. the object name).
Commit fe3c606843 ("firmware: Fix a reference count leak.") "fixed"
the leak in the first error path of the file registration helper but
left the second one unchanged. This "fix" would however result in a NULL
pointer dereference due to the release function also removing the never
added entry from the fw_cfg_entry_cache list. This has now been
addressed.
Fix the remaining kobject leak by restoring the common error path and
adding the missing kobject_put().
Fixes: 75f3e8e47f ("firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.6
Cc: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201132528.30025-3-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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