Re: [PATCH] fs/iomap: fix memory leak on error condition

[Garry McNulty]

On 21 February 2018 at 21:56, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 08:41:28PM +0000, Garry McNulty wrote:
> > If the call to is_sync_kiocb() fails an error is returned without
> > freeing dio. Set the return code and jump to out_free_dio.
> >
> > Detected by CoverityScan, CID 1429424 ("Resource leak")
>
> Coverity is wrong.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Garry McNulty <garrmcnu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  fs/iomap.c | 6 ++++--
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/iomap.c b/fs/iomap.c
> > index afd163586aa0..65c5db38c15a 100644
> > --- a/fs/iomap.c
> > +++ b/fs/iomap.c
> > @@ -1063,8 +1063,10 @@ iomap_dio_rw(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
> >               iomap_dio_set_error(dio, ret);
> >
> >       if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&dio->ref)) {
> > -             if (!is_sync_kiocb(iocb))
> > -                     return -EIOCBQUEUED;
> > +             if (!is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
> > +                     ret = -EIOCBQUEUED;
> > +                     goto out_free_dio;
> > +             }
>
> This is where we return after AIO submission. The struct dio has
> already been attached to the bio we have submitted, and will be
> freed on IO completion.  We are simply not waiting for IO completion
> here, instead leaving it to the completion code to free the struct
> dio and pass the completion status to the AIO code appropriately.
>
ah OK, thanks for reviewing and for the explanation.

Cheers

Garry