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| author | Sasha Levin | 2022-09-23 19:47:36 -0400 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski | 2022-09-26 10:06:34 -0700 |
| commit | 6052a4c11fd893234e085edf7bf2e00a33a79d4e (patch) | |
| tree | a86a84fe64902d989cd94460d51448cca18bb902 /drivers/net | |
| parent | b7ca8d5f56e6c57b671ceb8de1361d2a5a495087 (diff) | |
Revert "net: mvpp2: debugfs: fix memory leak when using debugfs_lookup()"
This reverts commit fe2c9c61f668cde28dac2b188028c5299cedcc1e.
On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 05:48:58PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
>What happens if this is built as a module, and the module is loaded,
>binds (and creates the directory), then is removed, and then re-
>inserted? Nothing removes the old directory, so doesn't
>debugfs_create_dir() fail, resulting in subsequent failure to add
>any subsequent debugfs entries?
>
>I don't think this patch should be backported to stable trees until
>this point is addressed.
Revert until a proper fix is available as the original behavior was
better.
Cc: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Fixes: fe2c9c61f668 ("net: mvpp2: debugfs: fix memory leak when using debugfs_lookup()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220923234736.657413-1-sashal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_debugfs.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_debugfs.c index 0eec05d905eb..4a3baa7e0142 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_debugfs.c @@ -700,10 +700,10 @@ void mvpp2_dbgfs_cleanup(struct mvpp2 *priv) void mvpp2_dbgfs_init(struct mvpp2 *priv, const char *name) { - static struct dentry *mvpp2_root; - struct dentry *mvpp2_dir; + struct dentry *mvpp2_dir, *mvpp2_root; int ret, i; + mvpp2_root = debugfs_lookup(MVPP2_DRIVER_NAME, NULL); if (!mvpp2_root) mvpp2_root = debugfs_create_dir(MVPP2_DRIVER_NAME, NULL); |