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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	 Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	 Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	 Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 14:27:36 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b024023f-b1f8-aedf-676a-5ee517f524a7@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230202142022.2300096-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

On Thu, 2 Feb 2023, 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.
> 
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-05 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-02 14:20 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-03 14:27 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2023-02-03 17:47 ` Roman Gushchin
2023-02-05 22:27 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2023-02-06 15:36 ` Vlastimil Babka

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