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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman | 2022-09-02 16:59:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman | 2022-09-05 13:02:34 +0200 |
| commit | dec9b2f1e0455a151a7293c367da22ab973f713e (patch) | |
| tree | 7ecf28aed34bca97422e7db5b22a41b175cc797f /fs/debugfs/inode.c | |
| parent | 5666a274a6d54372d6b79b1f78682a9d827e679e (diff) | |
debugfs: add debugfs_lookup_and_remove()
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/debugfs/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/debugfs/inode.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c index 3dcf0b8b4e93..232cfdf095ae 100644 --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c @@ -745,6 +745,28 @@ void debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry) 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. |