Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Mar 2023 10:13:33 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] mtd: spi-nor: fix memory leak when using debugfs_lookup() |
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On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 09:33:36AM +0100, Miquel Raynal wrote: > Hi Greg, > > gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote on Mon, 6 Mar 2023 07:52:38 +0100: > > > 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. > > > > > > > Ah, good catch, I merged this in when I applied it to my tree, thanks! > > Any reasons why you did apply this patch to your tree? It is a spi-nor > fix, I would have expected it to go through mtd.
It's been sitting around for a month, I assumed it was lost, so I picked it up. I can revert it if you don't want me to take it for 6.3-final through my driver core tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
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