From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 15:19:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] trace/blktrace: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
References: bsc#1012628
Patch-mainline: 6.2.3
Git-commit: 83e8864fee26f63a7435e941b7c36a20fd6fe93e
[ Upstream commit 83e8864fee26f63a7435e941b7c36a20fd6fe93e ]
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: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230202141956.2299521-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index 918a7d12..5743be55 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -320,8 +320,8 @@ static void blk_trace_free(struct request_queue *q, struct blk_trace *bt)
* under 'q->debugfs_dir', thus lookup and remove them.
*/
if (!bt->dir) {
- debugfs_remove(debugfs_lookup("dropped", q->debugfs_dir));
- debugfs_remove(debugfs_lookup("msg", q->debugfs_dir));
+ debugfs_lookup_and_remove("dropped", q->debugfs_dir);
+ debugfs_lookup_and_remove("msg", q->debugfs_dir);
} else {
debugfs_remove(bt->dir);
}
--
2.35.3