This reverts commit fe2c9c61f6.
On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 05:48:58PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
>What happens if this is built as a module, and the module is loaded,
>binds (and creates the directory), then is removed, and then re-
>inserted? Nothing removes the old directory, so doesn't
>debugfs_create_dir() fail, resulting in subsequent failure to add
>any subsequent debugfs entries?
>
>I don't think this patch should be backported to stable trees until
>this point is addressed.
Revert until a proper fix is available as the original behavior was
better.
Cc: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Fixes: fe2c9c61f6 ("net: mvpp2: debugfs: fix memory leak when using debugfs_lookup()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220923234736.657413-1-sashal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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