Re: [PATCH] sched/topology: fix potential memoryleak in sched_init_numa()

From: Abel Wu
Date: Wed Jun 21 2023 - 04:20:04 EST


On 6/21/23 2:38 PM, Miaohe Lin wrote:
When sched_init_numa() fails to allocate enough memory for sched domains
numa masks, it forgot to free the allocated memory leading to memoryleak.
Add a helper to help release the resource.

Fixes: cb83b629bae0 ("sched/numa: Rewrite the CONFIG_NUMA sched domain support")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/topology.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index 290509383419..dcec4d653ae3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -1807,6 +1807,20 @@ static void init_numa_topology_type(int offline_node)
#define NR_DISTANCE_VALUES (1 << DISTANCE_BITS)
+static void sched_free_numa_mask(struct cpumask ***masks, int nr_levels)
+{
+ int i, j;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_levels; i++) {
+ if (!masks[i])
+ continue;
+ for_each_node(j)
+ kfree(masks[i][j]);
+ kfree(masks[i]);
+ }
+ kfree(masks);
+}
+
void sched_init_numa(int offline_node)
{
struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl;
@@ -1886,15 +1900,19 @@ void sched_init_numa(int offline_node)
*/
for (i = 0; i < nr_levels; i++) {
masks[i] = kzalloc(nr_node_ids * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!masks[i])
+ if (!masks[i]) {
+ sched_free_numa_mask(masks, nr_levels);
return;
+ }
for_each_cpu_node_but(j, offline_node) {
struct cpumask *mask = kzalloc(cpumask_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
int k;
- if (!mask)
+ if (!mask) {
+ sched_free_numa_mask(masks, nr_levels);
return;
+ }
masks[i][j] = mask;

Allocation can also fail in @tl (topology level), and if that is the
case, masks[][] IMHO also needs be freed. So I think it might be better
if call sched_reset_numa() at proper place.