Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Feb 2023 13:21:00 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk/index.c: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() |
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On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 11:16:17AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > On Thu 2023-02-02 16:14:11, 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> > > JFYI, the patch has been committed into printk/linux.git, branch for-6.3.
Wonderful, thank you!
greg k-h
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