Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix memory leak on error in xfs_alloc_zone_info()

[Damien Le Moal]

On 2026/04/14 5:41, Wilfred Mallawa wrote:
> From: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, the 0th index of the zi_used_bucket_bitmap array is not freed on
> error due to the pre-decrement then evaluate semantic of this while loop used

s/this/the

> in xfs_alloc_zone_info(). Fix it by allowing for the i == 0 case to be covered.

Please limit your commit message text to 74 chars per line.
(See Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst, "The canonical patch format"
section).

> Signed-off-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@xxxxxxx>

I think that the usual order here is to have the Fixes and CC tag before your
signed-off-by.

> Fixes: 080d01c41d44 ("xfs: implement zoned garbage collection")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Other than this, looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c
> index a851b98143c0..c64f9ab743a6 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c
> @@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ xfs_alloc_zone_info(
>  	return zi;
>  
>  out_free_bitmaps:
> -	while (--i > 0)
> +	while (--i >= 0)
>  		kvfree(zi->zi_used_bucket_bitmap[i]);
>  	kfree(zi);
>  	return NULL;


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research