linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix kernfs node reference count leak issues

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Message-ID: <79ccbc0b-32b4-2d02-2790-62350c917d67@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:18:17 -0700
From:   Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To:     Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@...el.com>, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
        fenghua.yu@...el.com, willemb@...gle.com
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pei.p.jia@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix kernfs node reference count leak issues

Apologies, the Subject intended to have a "x86/resctrl:" prefix.

On 10/30/2020 12:02 PM, Xiaochen Shen wrote:
> Fix several kernfs node reference count leak issues:
> (1) Remove superfluous kernfs_get() calls to prevent refcount leak
> (2) Add necessary kernfs_put() calls to prevent refcount leak
> (3) Follow-up cleanup for the change in previous patch.
> 
> Xiaochen Shen (3):
>    x86/resctrl: Remove superfluous kernfs_get() calls to prevent refcount
>      leak
>    x86/resctrl: Add necessary kernfs_put() calls to prevent refcount leak
>    x86/resctrl: Clean up unused function parameter in rmdir path
> 
>   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c | 82 ++++++++++++++--------------------
>   1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>