Re: [PATCH v2] mm/gup: Fix memory leak in __gup_benchmark_ioctl

[John Hubbard]

On 12/13/19 2:37 PM, Navid Emamdoost wrote:
> In the implementation of __gup_benchmark_ioctl() the allocated pages
> should be released before returning in case of an invalid cmd. Release
> pages via kvfree() by goto done.
> 
> Fixes: 714a3a1ebafe ("mm/gup_benchmark.c: add additional pinning methods")
> Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> 	-- added goto and ret value instead of return -1.
> ---
>  mm/gup_benchmark.c | 9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

> diff --git a/mm/gup_benchmark.c b/mm/gup_benchmark.c
> index b160638f647e..b773b2568544 100644
> --- a/mm/gup_benchmark.c
> +++ b/mm/gup_benchmark.c
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static int __gup_benchmark_ioctl(unsigned int cmd,
>  {
>  	ktime_t start_time, end_time;
>  	unsigned long i, nr_pages, addr, next;
> -	int nr;
> +	int nr, ret = 0;
>  	struct page **pages;
>  
>  	if (gup->size > ULONG_MAX)
> @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ static int __gup_benchmark_ioctl(unsigned int cmd,
>  					    NULL);
>  			break;
>  		default:
> -			kvfree(pages);
> -			return -1;
> +			ret = -EINVAL;
> +			goto done;
>  		}
>  
>  		if (nr <= 0)
> @@ -85,8 +85,9 @@ static int __gup_benchmark_ioctl(unsigned int cmd,
>  	end_time = ktime_get();
>  	gup->put_delta_usec = ktime_us_delta(end_time, start_time);
>  
> +done:
>  	kvfree(pages);
> -	return 0;
> +	return ret;
>  }
>  
>  static long gup_benchmark_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned int cmd,
>