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debugfs: add debugfs_lookup_and_remove()
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commit dec9b2f upstream.

There is a very common pattern of using
debugfs_remove(debufs_lookup(..)) which results in a dentry leak of the
dentry that was looked up.  Instead of having to open-code the correct
pattern of calling dput() on the dentry, create
debugfs_lookup_and_remove() to handle this pattern automatically and
properly without any memory leaks.

Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Kuyo Chang <kuyo.chang@mediatek.com>
Tested-by: Kuyo Chang <kuyo.chang@mediatek.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YxIaQ8cSinDR881k@kroah.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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gregkh committed Sep 15, 2022
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22 changes: 22 additions & 0 deletions fs/debugfs/inode.c
Expand Up @@ -734,6 +734,28 @@ void debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_remove);

/**
* debugfs_lookup_and_remove - lookup a directory or file and recursively remove it
* @name: a pointer to a string containing the name of the item to look up.
* @parent: a pointer to the parent dentry of the item.
*
* This is the equlivant of doing something like
* debugfs_remove(debugfs_lookup(..)) but with the proper reference counting
* handled for the directory being looked up.
*/
void debugfs_lookup_and_remove(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
{
struct dentry *dentry;

dentry = debugfs_lookup(name, parent);
if (!dentry)
return;

debugfs_remove(dentry);
dput(dentry);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_lookup_and_remove);

/**
* debugfs_rename - rename a file/directory in the debugfs filesystem
* @old_dir: a pointer to the parent dentry for the renamed object. This
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/debugfs.h
Expand Up @@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_automount(const char *name,
void debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry);
#define debugfs_remove_recursive debugfs_remove

void debugfs_lookup_and_remove(const char *name, struct dentry *parent);

const struct file_operations *debugfs_real_fops(const struct file *filp);

int debugfs_file_get(struct dentry *dentry);
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static inline void debugfs_remove_recursive(struct dentry *dentry)
{ }

static inline void debugfs_lookup_and_remove(const char *name,
struct dentry *parent)
{ }

const struct file_operations *debugfs_real_fops(const struct file *filp);

static inline int debugfs_file_get(struct dentry *dentry)
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