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| author | Jakub Kicinski | 2020-07-09 17:42:44 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2020-07-10 13:54:00 -0700 |
| commit | a2b992c828f7651db369ba8f0eb0818d70232636 (patch) | |
| tree | f66e1c6eeb40d7acf38ad802e80df4efdde2e2f3 /Documentation | |
| parent | 8fb49c0109f47e4a25e8ba36abd8381afbfa7a08 (diff) | |
debugfs: make sure we can remove u32_array files cleanly
debugfs_create_u32_array() allocates a small structure to wrap
the data and size information about the array. If users ever
try to remove the file this leads to a leak since nothing ever
frees this wrapper.
That said there are no upstream users of debugfs_create_u32_array()
that'd remove a u32 array file (we only have one u32 array user in
CMA), so there is no real bug here.
Make callers pass a wrapper they allocated. This way the lifetime
management of the wrapper is on the caller, and we can avoid the
potential leak in debugfs.
CC: Chucheng Luo <luochucheng@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst index 1da7a4b7383d..728ab57a611a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst @@ -185,13 +185,17 @@ byte offsets over a base for the register block. If you want to dump an u32 array in debugfs, you can create file with:: + struct debugfs_u32_array { + u32 *array; + u32 n_elements; + }; + void debugfs_create_u32_array(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, - u32 *array, u32 elements); + struct debugfs_u32_array *array); -The "array" argument provides data, and the "elements" argument is -the number of elements in the array. Note: Once array is created its -size can not be changed. +The "array" argument wraps a pointer to the array's data and the number +of its elements. Note: Once array is created its size can not be changed. There is a helper function to create device related seq_file:: |