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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/slub: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 03:20:22PM +0100, 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: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> mm/slub.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 13459c69095a..4880e461fcc5 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -6449,7 +6449,7 @@ static void debugfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s)
>
> void debugfs_slab_release(struct kmem_cache *s)
> {
> - debugfs_remove_recursive(debugfs_lookup(s->name, slab_debugfs_root));
> + debugfs_lookup_and_remove(s->name, slab_debugfs_root);
> }

Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>

Thank you for fixing this.

> static int __init slab_debugfs_init(void)
> --
> 2.39.1
>

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