Re: [PATCH] drivers: nvdimm: fix possible memory leak

From: Dave Jiang
Date: Fri Sep 08 2023 - 12:37:46 EST




On 9/5/23 02:15, Konstantin Meskhidze wrote:
Memory pointed by 'nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups[NVDIMM_PMU_CPUMASK_ATTR]->attrs[0]'
is allocated in function 'nvdimm_pmu_cpu_hotplug_init' via
'create_cpumask_attr_group' call. But not released in function
'nvdimm_pmu_free_hotplug_memory' or anywhere else before memory pointed by
'nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups[NVDIMM_PMU_CPUMASK_ATTR]->attrs' will be freed.

Fixes: 0fab1ba6ad6b ("drivers/nvdimm: Add perf interface to expose nvdimm performance stats")
Co-developed-by: Ivanov Mikhail <ivanov.mikhail1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Meskhidze <konstantin.meskhidze@xxxxxxxxxx>

Please change subject to something like below. It needs to be a bit more descriptive. Thank you!

nvdimm: Fix possible memory leak in nd_perf hotplug release


---
drivers/nvdimm/nd_perf.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/nd_perf.c b/drivers/nvdimm/nd_perf.c
index 2b6dc80d8..ecfa1f635 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/nd_perf.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/nd_perf.c
@@ -264,10 +264,14 @@ static void nvdimm_pmu_free_hotplug_memory(struct nvdimm_pmu *nd_pmu)
{
cpuhp_state_remove_instance_nocalls(nd_pmu->cpuhp_state, &nd_pmu->node);
cpuhp_remove_multi_state(nd_pmu->cpuhp_state);
- if (nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups[NVDIMM_PMU_CPUMASK_ATTR])
+ if (nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups[NVDIMM_PMU_CPUMASK_ATTR]) {
+ if (nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups[NVDIMM_PMU_CPUMASK_ATTR]->attrs)
+ kfree(nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups[NVDIMM_PMU_CPUMASK_ATTR]->attrs[0]);
+
kfree(nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups[NVDIMM_PMU_CPUMASK_ATTR]->attrs);
+ }
kfree(nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups[NVDIMM_PMU_CPUMASK_ATTR]);
}
int register_nvdimm_pmu(struct nvdimm_pmu *nd_pmu, struct platform_device *pdev)