[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 48/60] drivers: base: component: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Fri Mar 3 21:43:02 UTC 2023


From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>

[ 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 at kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230202141621.2296458-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/base/component.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/component.c b/drivers/base/component.c
index 5eadeac6c5322..7dbf14a1d9157 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
-- 
2.39.2



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