From 8488c952e776b30a547c1abeb5258d16a4b5ad09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qasim Ijaz Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 19:49:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] HID: wacom: fix kobject reference count leak commit 85a720f4337f0ddf1603c8b75a8f1ffbbe022ef9 upstream. When sysfs_create_files() fails in wacom_initialize_remotes() the error is returned and the cleanup action will not have been registered yet. As a result the kobject???s refcount is never dropped, so the kobject can never be freed leading to a reference leak. Fix this by calling kobject_put() before returning. Fixes: 83e6b40e2de6 ("HID: wacom: EKR: have the wacom resources dynamically allocated") Acked-by: Ping Cheng Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Qasim Ijaz Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c b/drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c index af0bbd5ece97c..abbfb53bb7dc9 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c +++ b/drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c @@ -2031,6 +2031,7 @@ static int wacom_initialize_remotes(struct wacom *wacom) hid_err(wacom->hdev, "cannot create sysfs group err: %d\n", error); kfifo_free(&remote->remote_fifo); + kobject_put(remote->remote_dir); return error; } -- 2.47.3