From: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
commit dec9b2f1e0455a151a7293c367da22ab973f713e upstream.
There is a very common pattern of using debugfs_remove(debufs_lookup(..)) which results in a dentry leak of the dentry that was looked up. Instead of having to open-code the correct pattern of calling dput() on the dentry, create debugfs_lookup_and_remove() to handle this pattern automatically and properly without any memory leaks.
Cc: stable stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Kuyo Chang kuyo.chang@mediatek.com Tested-by: Kuyo Chang kuyo.chang@mediatek.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YxIaQ8cSinDR881k@kroah.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/debugfs/inode.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/debugfs.h | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c @@ -745,6 +745,28 @@ void debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentr EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_remove);
/** + * debugfs_lookup_and_remove - lookup a directory or file and recursively remove it + * @name: a pointer to a string containing the name of the item to look up. + * @parent: a pointer to the parent dentry of the item. + * + * This is the equlivant of doing something like + * debugfs_remove(debugfs_lookup(..)) but with the proper reference counting + * handled for the directory being looked up. + */ +void debugfs_lookup_and_remove(const char *name, struct dentry *parent) +{ + struct dentry *dentry; + + dentry = debugfs_lookup(name, parent); + if (!dentry) + return; + + debugfs_remove(dentry); + dput(dentry); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_lookup_and_remove); + +/** * debugfs_rename - rename a file/directory in the debugfs filesystem * @old_dir: a pointer to the parent dentry for the renamed object. This * should be a directory dentry. --- a/include/linux/debugfs.h +++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h @@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_automount( void debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry); #define debugfs_remove_recursive debugfs_remove
+void debugfs_lookup_and_remove(const char *name, struct dentry *parent); + const struct file_operations *debugfs_real_fops(const struct file *filp);
int debugfs_file_get(struct dentry *dentry); @@ -225,6 +227,10 @@ static inline void debugfs_remove(struct static inline void debugfs_remove_recursive(struct dentry *dentry) { }
+static inline void debugfs_lookup_and_remove(const char *name, + struct dentry *parent) +{ } + const struct file_operations *debugfs_real_fops(const struct file *filp);
static inline int debugfs_file_get(struct dentry *dentry)