Re: [PATCH 5/5] lightnvm: avoid memory leak when lun_map kcalloc fails

From: Johannes Thumshirn
Date: Tue Apr 05 2016 - 11:14:12 EST


On 2016-04-05 16:55, Matias BjÃrling wrote:
A memory leak occurs if the lower page table is initialized and the
following dev->lun_map fails on allocation.

Rearrange the initialization of lower page table to allow dev->lun_map
to fail gracefully without memory leak.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matias BjÃrling <m@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/lightnvm/core.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
index 4cadbe0..fd5a9f3 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
@@ -504,6 +504,7 @@ static int nvm_core_init(struct nvm_dev *dev)
{
struct nvm_id *id = &dev->identity;
struct nvm_id_group *grp = &id->groups[0];
+ int ret;

/* device values */
dev->nr_chnls = grp->num_ch;
@@ -522,33 +523,16 @@ static int nvm_core_init(struct nvm_dev *dev)
dev->plane_mode = NVM_PLANE_SINGLE;
dev->max_rq_size = dev->ops->max_phys_sect * dev->sec_size;

- if (grp->mtype != 0) {
- pr_err("nvm: memory type not supported\n");
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
- switch (grp->fmtype) {
- case NVM_ID_FMTYPE_SLC:
- if (nvm_init_slc_tbl(dev, grp))
- return -ENOMEM;
- break;
- case NVM_ID_FMTYPE_MLC:
- if (nvm_init_mlc_tbl(dev, grp))
- return -ENOMEM;
- break;
- default:
- pr_err("nvm: flash type not supported\n");
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
- if (!dev->lps_per_blk)
- pr_info("nvm: lower page programming table missing\n");
-
if (grp->mpos & 0x020202)
dev->plane_mode = NVM_PLANE_DOUBLE;
if (grp->mpos & 0x040404)
dev->plane_mode = NVM_PLANE_QUAD;

+ if (grp->mtype != 0) {
+ pr_err("nvm: memory type not supported\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
/* calculated values */
dev->sec_per_pl = dev->sec_per_pg * dev->nr_planes;
dev->sec_per_blk = dev->sec_per_pl * dev->pgs_per_blk;
@@ -560,11 +544,34 @@ static int nvm_core_init(struct nvm_dev *dev)
sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev->lun_map)
return -ENOMEM;
+
+ switch (grp->fmtype) {
+ case NVM_ID_FMTYPE_SLC:
+ if (nvm_init_slc_tbl(dev, grp)) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_fmtype;
+ }
+ break;
+ case NVM_ID_FMTYPE_MLC:
+ if (nvm_init_mlc_tbl(dev, grp)) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_fmtype;
+ }
+ break;
+ default:
+ pr_err("nvm: flash type not supported\n");
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto err_fmtype;
+ }
+
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->online_targets);
mutex_init(&dev->mlock);
spin_lock_init(&dev->lock);

return 0;
+err_fmtype:
+ kfree(dev->lun_map);
+ return ret;
}

static void nvm_free(struct nvm_dev *dev)

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>