Re: [PATCH] mm/cma: cma_declare_contiguous: correct err handling
From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Tue Feb 19 2019 - 11:55:39 EST
On 2/14/19 9:38 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:45:51 +0000 Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In case cma_init_reserved_mem failed, need to free the memblock allocated
>> by memblock_reserve or memblock_alloc_range.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> --- a/mm/cma.c
>> +++ b/mm/cma.c
>> @@ -353,12 +353,14 @@ int __init cma_declare_contiguous(phys_addr_t base,
>>
>> ret = cma_init_reserved_mem(base, size, order_per_bit, name, res_cma);
>> if (ret)
>> - goto err;
>> + goto free_mem;
>>
>> pr_info("Reserved %ld MiB at %pa\n", (unsigned long)size / SZ_1M,
>> &base);
>> return 0;
>>
>> +free_mem:
>> + memblock_free(base, size);
>> err:
>> pr_err("Failed to reserve %ld MiB\n", (unsigned long)size / SZ_1M);
>> return ret;
>
> This doesn't look right to me. In the `fixed==true' case we didn't
> actually allocate anything and in the `fixed==false' case, the
> allocated memory is at `addr', not at `base'.
I think it's ok as the fixed==true path has "memblock_reserve()", but
better leave this to the memblock maintainer :)
There's also 'kmemleak_ignore_phys(addr)' which should probably be
undone (or not called at all) in the failure case. But it seems to be
missing from the fixed==true path?