Date:   Fri, 3 Feb 2023 11:16:17 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk/index.c: fix memory leak with using
 debugfs_lookup()
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On Thu 2023-02-02 16:14:11, 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: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

JFYI, the patch has been committed into printk/linux.git, branch for-6.3.

Best Regards,
Petr