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* [PATCH] drivers: base: power: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
@ 2023-02-02 14:15 Greg Kroah-Hartman
  2023-02-02 14:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
  2023-02-02 14:45 ` Ulf Hansson
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2023-02-02 14:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: rafael
  Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kevin Hilman, Ulf Hansson, Pavel Machek,
	Len Brown, linux-pm, linux-kernel

When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,
otherwise the memory will leak over time.  To make things simpler, just
call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic
at
once.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>
Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/base/power/domain.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/power/domain.c b/drivers/base/power/domain.c
index 967bcf9d415e..6097644ebdc5 100644
--- a/drivers/base/power/domain.c
+++ b/drivers/base/power/domain.c
@@ -220,13 +220,10 @@ static void genpd_debug_add(struct generic_pm_domain *genpd);
 
 static void genpd_debug_remove(struct generic_pm_domain *genpd)
 {
-	struct dentry *d;
-
 	if (!genpd_debugfs_dir)
 		return;
 
-	d = debugfs_lookup(genpd->name, genpd_debugfs_dir);
-	debugfs_remove(d);
+	debugfs_lookup_and_remove(genpd->name, genpd_debugfs_dir);
 }
 
 static void genpd_update_accounting(struct generic_pm_domain *genpd)
-- 
2.39.1


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2023-02-02 14:15 [PATCH] drivers: base: power: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-02 14:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2023-02-02 15:09   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-09 19:34     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2023-02-02 14:45 ` Ulf Hansson

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