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[01/13] USB: chipidea: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()

Message ID 20230202153235.2412790-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit ff35f3ea3baba5b81416ac02d005cfbf6dd182fa
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Series [01/13] USB: chipidea: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() | expand

Commit Message

Greg KH Feb. 2, 2023, 3:32 p.m. UTC
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: Peter Chen <peter.chen@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Peter Chen Feb. 10, 2023, 8:51 a.m. UTC | #1
On 23-02-02 16:32:23, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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: Peter Chen <peter.chen@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Acked-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c b/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c
> index faf6b078b6c4..bbc610e5bd69 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c
> @@ -364,5 +364,5 @@ void dbg_create_files(struct ci_hdrc *ci)
>   */
>  void dbg_remove_files(struct ci_hdrc *ci)
>  {
> -	debugfs_remove(debugfs_lookup(dev_name(ci->dev), usb_debug_root));
> +	debugfs_lookup_and_remove(dev_name(ci->dev), usb_debug_root);
>  }
> -- 
> 2.39.1
>
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diff --git a/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c b/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c
index faf6b078b6c4..bbc610e5bd69 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c
@@ -364,5 +364,5 @@  void dbg_create_files(struct ci_hdrc *ci)
  */
 void dbg_remove_files(struct ci_hdrc *ci)
 {
-	debugfs_remove(debugfs_lookup(dev_name(ci->dev), usb_debug_root));
+	debugfs_lookup_and_remove(dev_name(ci->dev), usb_debug_root);
 }