[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] i915: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Feb 2 14:13:09 UTC 2023


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: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang at intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
Cc: intel-gvt-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c
index 8ae7039b3683..de675d799c7d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ static void intel_vgpu_close_device(struct vfio_device *vfio_dev)
 
 	clear_bit(INTEL_VGPU_STATUS_ATTACHED, vgpu->status);
 
-	debugfs_remove(debugfs_lookup(KVMGT_DEBUGFS_FILENAME, vgpu->debugfs));
+	debugfs_lookup_and_remove(KVMGT_DEBUGFS_FILENAME, vgpu->debugfs);
 
 	kvm_page_track_unregister_notifier(vgpu->vfio_device.kvm,
 					   &vgpu->track_node);
-- 
2.39.1



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