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debugfs: open_proxy_open(): avoid double fops release

Debugfs' open_proxy_open(), the ->open() installed at all inodes created
through debugfs_create_file_unsafe(),
- grabs a reference to the original file_operations instance passed to
debugfs_create_file_unsafe() via fops_get(),
- installs it at the file's ->f_op by means of replace_fops()
- and calls fops_put() on it.

Since the semantics of replace_fops() are such that the reference's
ownership is transferred, the subsequent fops_put() will result in a double
release when the file is eventually closed.

Currently, this is not an issue since fops_put() basically does a
module_put() on the file_operations' ->owner only and there don't exist any
modules calling debugfs_create_file_unsafe() yet. This is expected to
change in the future though, c.f. commit c64688081490 ("debugfs: add
support for self-protecting attribute file fops").

Remove the call to fops_put() from open_proxy_open().

Fixes: 9fd4dcece43a ("debugfs: prevent access to possibly dead
file_operations at file open")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Nicolai Stange and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
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fs/debugfs/file.c
··· 127 127 r = real_fops->open(inode, filp); 128 128 129 129 out: 130 - fops_put(real_fops); 131 130 debugfs_use_file_finish(srcu_idx); 132 131 return r; 133 132 }