drivers: base: component: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 2 Feb 2023 14:16:20 +0000 (15:16 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 11 Mar 2023 12:55:39 +0000 (13:55 +0100)
[ 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@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230202141621.2296458-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/base/component.c

index 5eadeac6c53221c9fd5563d02b2e775db7876b2c..7dbf14a1d915779e0237b996f495b49faaa3e5a6 100644 (file)
@@ -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