The failure paths of sysfs_slab_add don't release the allocation of 'name'
made by create_unique_id() a few lines above the context of the diff below.
Create a common exit path to make it more obvious what needs freeing.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <da...@fedoraproject.org>

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 25f14ad8f817..b2181d2682ac 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5197,17 +5197,13 @@ static int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s)
 
        s->kobj.kset = slab_kset;
        err = kobject_init_and_add(&s->kobj, &slab_ktype, NULL, "%s", name);
-       if (err) {
-               kobject_put(&s->kobj);
-               return err;
-       }
+       if (err)
+               goto err_out;
 
        err = sysfs_create_group(&s->kobj, &slab_attr_group);
-       if (err) {
-               kobject_del(&s->kobj);
-               kobject_put(&s->kobj);
-               return err;
-       }
+       if (err)
+               goto err_sysfs;
+
        kobject_uevent(&s->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
        if (!unmergeable) {
                /* Setup first alias */
@@ -5215,6 +5211,13 @@ static int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s)
                kfree(name);
        }
        return 0;
+
+err_sysfs:
+       kobject_del(&s->kobj);
+err_out:
+       kobject_put(&s->kobj);
+       kfree(name);
+       return err;
 }
 
 static void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s)
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