Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: idxd: Fix memory leak in idxd_alloc()

From: Jerry Snitselaar
Date: Fri Sep 16 2022 - 12:17:24 EST


On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 08:08:14PM -0300, Rafael Mendonca wrote:
> If the IDA id allocation fails, then the allocated memory for the
> idxd_device struct doesn't get freed before returning NULL, which leads to
> a memleak.
>
> Fixes: 47c16ac27d4c ("dmaengine: idxd: fix idxd conf_dev 'struct device' lifetime")
> Signed-off-by: Rafael Mendonca <rafaelmendsr@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@xxxxxxxxxx

> ---
> drivers/dma/idxd/init.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c b/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
> index aa3478257ddb..fdc97519b8fb 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
> @@ -445,8 +445,10 @@ static struct idxd_device *idxd_alloc(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct idxd_driver_d
> idxd->data = data;
> idxd_dev_set_type(&idxd->idxd_dev, idxd->data->type);
> idxd->id = ida_alloc(&idxd_ida, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (idxd->id < 0)
> + if (idxd->id < 0) {
> + kfree(idxd);
> return NULL;
> + }
>
> device_initialize(conf_dev);
> conf_dev->parent = dev;
> --
> 2.34.1
>