[PATCH 3/3] io_uring/zcrx: fix resource leak and double-free hazard in io_import_umem

From: KobaK

Date: Wed Apr 08 2026 - 02:57:06 EST


From: Koba Ko <kobak@xxxxxxxxxx>

io_import_umem() has two problems:

1. When io_account_mem() fails, the function returns an error but leaves
live pinned pages and sg_table in the mem struct without cleaning them
up. The caller happens to handle this today via io_zcrx_free_area() ->
io_release_area_mem(), but the contract is fragile.

2. io_release_area_mem() doesn't NULL out mem->pages after kvfree(),
making it unsafe to call twice. Since io_zcrx_free_area() always
calls it during teardown, any earlier cleanup call would cause a
double-free.

Fix both: populate mem fields before io_account_mem() so
io_release_area_mem() can do a proper cleanup on failure, and add
mem->pages = NULL in io_release_area_mem() to make it idempotent.

Fixes: 262ab205180d2 ("io_uring/zcrx: account area memory")
Signed-off-by: Koba Ko <kobak@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
io_uring/zcrx.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/io_uring/zcrx.c b/io_uring/zcrx.c
index 62d693287457f..c9ed1139c7bcd 100644
--- a/io_uring/zcrx.c
+++ b/io_uring/zcrx.c
@@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ static unsigned long io_count_account_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned nr_pag
return res;
}

+static void io_release_area_mem(struct io_zcrx_mem *mem);
+
static int io_import_umem(struct io_zcrx_ifq *ifq,
struct io_zcrx_mem *mem,
struct io_uring_zcrx_area_reg *area_reg)
@@ -213,16 +215,20 @@ static int io_import_umem(struct io_zcrx_ifq *ifq,
return ret;
}

- mem->account_pages = io_count_account_pages(pages, nr_pages);
- ret = io_account_mem(ifq->user, ifq->mm_account, mem->account_pages);
- if (ret < 0)
- mem->account_pages = 0;
-
mem->sgt = &mem->page_sg_table;
mem->pages = pages;
mem->nr_folios = nr_pages;
mem->size = area_reg->len;
- return ret;
+
+ mem->account_pages = io_count_account_pages(pages, nr_pages);
+ ret = io_account_mem(ifq->user, ifq->mm_account, mem->account_pages);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ mem->account_pages = 0;
+ io_release_area_mem(mem);
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
}

static void io_release_area_mem(struct io_zcrx_mem *mem)
@@ -236,6 +242,7 @@ static void io_release_area_mem(struct io_zcrx_mem *mem)
sg_free_table(mem->sgt);
mem->sgt = NULL;
kvfree(mem->pages);
+ mem->pages = NULL;
}
}

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