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ppc: iommu: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()

Message ID 20230202141919.2298821-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
State New
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Series ppc: iommu: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() |

Commit Message

Greg KH Feb. 2, 2023, 2:19 p.m. UTC 
  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: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Michael Ellerman Feb. 15, 2023, 12:40 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 15:19:19 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] ppc: iommu: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b505063910c134778202dfad9332dfcecb76bab3

cheers
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
index caebe1431596..ee95937bdaf1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c
@@ -67,11 +67,9 @@  static void iommu_debugfs_add(struct iommu_table *tbl)
 static void iommu_debugfs_del(struct iommu_table *tbl)
 {
 	char name[10];
-	struct dentry *liobn_entry;
 
 	sprintf(name, "%08lx", tbl->it_index);
-	liobn_entry = debugfs_lookup(name, iommu_debugfs_dir);
-	debugfs_remove(liobn_entry);
+	debugfs_lookup_and_remove(name, iommu_debugfs_dir);
 }
 #else
 static void iommu_debugfs_add(struct iommu_table *tbl){}