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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-02-02 15:16:20 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-03-11 13:50:45 +0100
commitbf0fd01c7cc1061fb2cfda3e2044371642108e6c (patch)
tree979bbf4764932c7d6aed2918be7b2ca5d0b968d8
parentmisc: vmw_balloon: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() (diff)
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drivers: base: component: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
[ Upstream commit 8deb87b1e810dd558371e88ffd44339fbef27870 ] 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: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230202141621.2296458-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/component.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/component.c b/drivers/base/component.c
index 5eadeac6c532..7dbf14a1d915 100644
--- a/drivers/base/component.c
+++ b/drivers/base/component.c
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static void component_debugfs_add(struct aggregate_device *m)
static void component_debugfs_del(struct aggregate_device *m)
{
- debugfs_remove(debugfs_lookup(dev_name(m->parent), component_debugfs_dir));
+ debugfs_lookup_and_remove(dev_name(m->parent), component_debugfs_dir);
}
#else