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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-09-25 10:22:13 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-09-25 10:22:13 +0300
commita12c689209185c1ad872723a644d0cd27e52d49c (patch)
tree11c01d147a9241561eb7a3ad5a999e234be2750c /fs/debugfs/inode.c
parent4c8928850c9dc5c849ee37d89a79d44a283bdd87 (diff)
parent7e2cd21e02b35483ce8ea88da5732d4d3ec3a6c9 (diff)
downloadlinux-a12c689209185c1ad872723a644d0cd27e52d49c.tar.xz
Merge 7e2cd21e02b3 ("Merge tag 'tty-6.0-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty") into tty-next
We need the tty fixes and api additions in this branch. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
index 3dcf0b8b4e93..232cfdf095ae 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -745,6 +745,28 @@ 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
* should be a directory dentry.