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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk/index.c: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 11:53:53 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y9x3Qe5zATCXrbnN@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230202151411.2308576-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

On (23/02/02 16:14), 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: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-03  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-02 15:14 [PATCH] kernel/printk/index.c: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-03  2:53 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2023-02-03  9:11 ` John Ogness
2023-02-03  9:40 ` Petr Mladek
2023-02-03 10:16 ` Petr Mladek
2023-02-08 12:21   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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