Commit 2bb3669f authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel/fail_function: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()

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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230202151633.2310897-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent a0bc3f78
......@@ -163,10 +163,7 @@ static void fei_debugfs_add_attr(struct fei_attr *attr)
static void fei_debugfs_remove_attr(struct fei_attr *attr)
{
struct dentry *dir;
dir = debugfs_lookup(attr->kp.symbol_name, fei_debugfs_dir);
debugfs_remove_recursive(dir);
debugfs_lookup_and_remove(attr->kp.symbol_name, fei_debugfs_dir);
}
static int fei_kprobe_handler(struct kprobe *kp, struct pt_regs *regs)
......
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