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the returned buffer of register_sysctl() is stored into net_header
variable, but net_header is not used after, and compiler maybe
optimise the variable out, and lead kmemleak reported the below warning

	comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294937448 (age 267.270s)
	hex dump (first 32 bytes):
	90 38 8b 01 c0 ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 .8..............
	01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
	backtrace:
	[<ffffffc00020f134>] create_object+0x10c/0x2a0
	[<ffffffc00070ff44>] kmemleak_alloc+0x54/0xa0
	[<ffffffc0001fe378>] __kmalloc+0x1f8/0x4f8
	[<ffffffc00028e984>] __register_sysctl_table+0x64/0x5a0
	[<ffffffc00028eef0>] register_sysctl+0x30/0x40
	[<ffffffc00099c304>] net_sysctl_init+0x20/0x58
	[<ffffffc000994dd8>] sock_init+0x10/0xb0
	[<ffffffc0000842e0>] do_one_initcall+0x90/0x1b8
	[<ffffffc000966bac>] kernel_init_freeable+0x218/0x2f0
	[<ffffffc00070ed6c>] kernel_init+0x1c/0xe8
	[<ffffffc000083bfc>] ret_from_fork+0xc/0x50
	[<ffffffffffffffff>] ...