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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kernel/printk/index.c: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
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>

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