Re: [PATCH] scsi: Fix reference count leak in iscsi_boot_create_kobj()

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Markus Elfring

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May 29, 2020, 6:09:13 AM5/29/20
to Qiushi Wu, linux...@vger.kernel.org, open-...@googlegroups.com, kernel-...@vger.kernel.org, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, Chris Leech, James E. J. Bottomley, Kangjie Lu, Lee Duncan, Martin K. Petersen
> kobject_init_and_add() should be handled when it return an error,
> because kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.

I find this wording approach improvable.


> Previous commit "b8eb718348b8" fixed a similar problem.

I suggest to omit this information from the commit message.


> Thus replace calling kfree() by calling kobject_put().

How do you think about a wording variant like the following?

Thus replace a call of the function “kfree” by “kobject_put”
because of using kernel objects in the proper way.


Please take another look also at the message field “To”.
Which recipients should be specified there first?

Regards,
Markus

Markus Elfring

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May 29, 2020, 6:09:14 AM5/29/20
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