From dec9b2f1e0455a151a7293c367da22ab973f713e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 16:59:15 +0200 Subject: debugfs: add debugfs_lookup_and_remove() 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 Reported-by: Kuyo Chang Tested-by: Kuyo Chang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YxIaQ8cSinDR881k@kroah.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/debugfs/inode.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/debugfs') 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 @@ -744,6 +744,28 @@ 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 -- cgit v1.2.3