linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] debugfs: fixes to "file removal race" series

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Date:	Tue, 24 May 2016 13:08:51 +0200
From:	Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] debugfs: fixes to "file removal race" series

Hi Greg,

the recent report by Sasha Levin made me review my debugfs
"file removal race" series again.

For your reference, the original series in question was posted here:
http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1458652280-19785-1-git-send-email-nicstange@gmail.com
It has been merged through your driver-core tree into mainline.

Unfortunately, I found three issues:

The first one is a minor code style issue.
The second one is more serious: on ->open() failure, references to modules
as well as memory are leaked.
The third one is a potential leak of module references with future debugfs
users.

The patches don't depend on each other and are unrelated except that they
all address issues introduced by the same series.
I tested them with linux-next 20160523.

Apologies and thanks,

Nicolai

Nicolai Stange (3):
  debugfs: remove extra debugfs_create_file_unsafe() declaration
  debugfs: full_proxy_open(): free proxy on ->open() failure
  debugfs: open_proxy_open(): avoid double fops release

 fs/debugfs/file.c     | 7 ++++---
 fs/debugfs/internal.h | 4 ----
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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