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[PATCH 07/11] xen/sys-hypervisor: Add release callback to hyp_sysfs_kobj_type

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From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Date: 2026-10-13 22:40:43
Also in: amd-gfx, dri-devel, driver-core, gfs2, linux-acpi, linux-doc, linux-hardening, linux-pm, linux-s390, linux-sh, lkml, llvm, xen-devel
Subsystem: the rest, xen hypervisor interface · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Juergen Gross, Stefano Stabellini

hypervisor_init() in drivers/base/hypervisor.c creates hypervisor_kobj
with kobject_create_and_add() (which allocates a dynamic kobject using
dynamic_kobj_ktype), and hypervisor_subsys_init() in
drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c then overwrites hypervisor_kobj->ktype with
&hyp_sysfs_kobj_type, which had no .release callback.

Add hyp_sysfs_release() calling kfree(kobj) to preserve the dynamic
kobject release behavior.

Fixes: cff7e81b3dd7 ("xen: add /sys/hypervisor support")
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.1-pro
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
 drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c b/drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c
index 91923242a5ae..0e8a2cd69fd6 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c
@@ -659,7 +659,13 @@ static const struct sysfs_ops hyp_sysfs_ops = {
 	.store = hyp_sysfs_store,
 };
 
+static void hyp_sysfs_release(struct kobject *kobj)
+{
+	kfree(kobj);
+}
+
 static const struct kobj_type hyp_sysfs_kobj_type = {
+	.release = hyp_sysfs_release,
 	.sysfs_ops = &hyp_sysfs_ops,
 };
 
-- 
2.56.0.385.gd3acb90ef8-goog

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