Lukas Wunner
cf9c2bc5ee
commit 4ce6435820 upstream.
If addition of sysfs files fails on registration of a hotplug slot, the
struct pci_slot as well as the entry in the slot_list is leaked. The
issue has been present since the hotplug core was introduced in 2002:
https://git.kernel.org/tglx/history/c/a8a2069f432c
Perhaps the idea was that even though sysfs addition fails, the slot
should still be usable. But that's not how drivers use the interface,
they abort probe if a non-zero value is returned.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.4.15+
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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