Re: [PATCH 2/6] dmaengine: idxd: fix duplicate memory frees on initialization error path
From: Dave Jiang
Date: Tue Oct 13 2026 - 16:53:11 EST
On 10/12/26 2:38 PM, Vinicius Costa Gomes wrote:
> From: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@xxxxxxx>
>
> Error paths within idxd_pci_probe_alloc and related functions end up
> attempting to free memory already freed from idxd_conf_device_release
> via put_device.
>
> This was encountered running in a kexec'd kdump kernel with reduced
> resources, causing the "Device is HALTED!" branch in
> idxd_device_init_reset to be taken.
>
> [ 18.628791] idxd 0000:00:01.0: Device is HALTED!
> [ 18.631447] idxd 0000:00:01.0: Intel(R) IDXD DMA Engine init failed
> [ 18.631450] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 18.631451] ida_free called for id=0 which is not allocated.
> [ 18.631462] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at lib/idr.c:525 ida_free+0xd3/0x130
> [ 18.631474] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.12.0-1-rt-amd64 #1
> [ 18.631477] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge XR8720t/0J91KV, BIOS 1.1.3 02/03/2026
> [ 18.631478] Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn
> [ 18.631480] RIP: 0010:ida_free+0xd3/0x130
> [ 18.631492] Call Trace:
> [ 18.631494] <TASK>
> [ 18.631495] idxd_pci_probe+0x1b0/0x1860 [idxd]
> [ 18.631506] local_pci_probe+0x43/0xa0
> [ 18.631508] work_for_cpu_fn+0x13/0x20
> [ 18.631510] process_one_work+0x179/0x390
> [ 18.631512] worker_thread+0x237/0x340
> [ 18.631517] kthread+0xc6/0x100
> [ 18.631520] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
> [ 18.631524] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
> [ 18.631526] </TASK>
>
> In idxd_free and idxd_alloc, do not attempt to free allocations that
> will already have been freed.
>
> Fixes: 90022b3a6981 ("dmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_pci_probe")
> Fixes: 46a5cca76c76 ("dmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_alloc")
> Reported-by: Bogdan Codres <bogdan.codres@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/akLBL7b2h73pK0AC@ilogsc-qemu.local/
> Signed-off-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@xxxxxxx>
Missing Vinicius sign off
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/dma/idxd/init.c | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c b/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
> index 4b827a329756..4adb3f3bcd01 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
> @@ -581,9 +581,6 @@ static void idxd_free(struct idxd_device *idxd)
> return;
>
> put_device(idxd_confdev(idxd));
> - bitmap_free(idxd->opcap_bmap);
> - ida_free(&idxd_ida, idxd->id);
> - kfree(idxd);
> }
>
> static struct idxd_device *idxd_alloc(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct idxd_driver_data *data)
> @@ -623,8 +620,13 @@ static struct idxd_device *idxd_alloc(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct idxd_driver_d
> return idxd;
>
> err_name:
> + /*
> + * once device_initialize(conf_dev) is called,
> + * put_device(conf_dev) will end up calling
> + * idxd_conf_device_release() which will free the rest.
> + */
> put_device(conf_dev);
> - bitmap_free(idxd->opcap_bmap);
> + return NULL;
> err_opcap:
> ida_free(&idxd_ida, idxd->id);
> err_ida:
>