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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4] mtd: spi-nor: fix memory leak when using debugfs_lookup()
On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 05:15:41PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
> Am 2023-02-08 17:02, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> > When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,
> > otherwise the memory will leak over time. To solve this, remove the
> > lookup and create the directory on the first device found, and then
> > remove it when the module is unloaded.
> >
> > Cc: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
> > Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
> > Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
> > Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
> > Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
> > Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
>
> one nit below I didn't notice earlier, no need to send a new
> patch version just for that.
>
> ..
>
> > +void spi_nor_debugfs_shutdown(void)
> > +{
> > + if (rootdir)
> > + debugfs_remove(rootdir);
>
> debugfs_remove() already has a check for NULL.
>

Argh, I knew that, for some reason I went back and added that check as I
was thinking this would have been an issue if rootdir was never created.
You are right, it isn't a problem, oh well.

The simplest patches sometimes take the longest time to get right, I'll
stop now :)

thanks so much for the reviews,

greg k-h

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