* [PATCH 6.1 537/885] trace/blktrace: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
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@ 2023-03-07 16:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2023-03-07 16:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, patches, Jens Axboe, Steven Rostedt,
Masami Hiramatsu, linux-block, linux-kernel, linux-trace-kernel,
Bart Van Assche, Sasha Levin
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit 83e8864fee26f63a7435e941b7c36a20fd6fe93e ]
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: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230202141956.2299521-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index a66cff5a18579..a5b35bcfb0602 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -320,8 +320,8 @@ static void blk_trace_free(struct request_queue *q, struct blk_trace *bt)
* under 'q->debugfs_dir', thus lookup and remove them.
*/
if (!bt->dir) {
- debugfs_remove(debugfs_lookup("dropped", q->debugfs_dir));
- debugfs_remove(debugfs_lookup("msg", q->debugfs_dir));
+ debugfs_lookup_and_remove("dropped", q->debugfs_dir);
+ debugfs_lookup_and_remove("msg", q->debugfs_dir);
} else {
debugfs_remove(bt->dir);
}
--
2.39.2
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