linux-kernel - [PATCH] eventfs: Remove extra dget() in eventfs_create_events

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Message-ID: <20231031124229.4f2e3fa1@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:42:29 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Trace Kernel <linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] eventfs: Remove extra dget() in eventfs_create_events_dir()

From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>

The creation of the top events directory does a dget() at the end of the
creation in eventfs_create_events_dir() with a comment saying the final
dput() will happen when it is removed. The problem is that a dget() is
already done on the dentry when it was created with tracefs_start_creating()!
The dget() now just causes a memory leak of that dentry.

Remove the extra dget() as the final dput() in the deletion of the events
directory actually matches the one in tracefs_start_creating().

Fixes: 5790b1fb3d672 ("eventfs: Remove eventfs_file and just use eventfs_inode")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index ae2172814bdc..d051b889147d 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -952,9 +952,6 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry
 	fsnotify_mkdir(dentry->d_parent->d_inode, dentry);
 	tracefs_end_creating(dentry);
 
-	/* Will call dput when the directory is removed */
-	dget(dentry);
-
 	return ei;
 
  fail:
-- 
2.42.0