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 <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Kuyo Chang <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Kuyo Chang <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h
index c869f1e..f606746 100644
--- a/include/linux/debugfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h
@@ -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);
@@ -225,6 +227,10 @@ static inline void debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry)
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)
