Re: [PATCH v2] ata: libata: Fix memory leak for error path in ata_host_alloc()

[Damien Le Moal]

On 8/22/24 12:30 PM, Zheng Qixing wrote:
> From: Zheng Qixing <zhengqixing@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In ata_host_alloc(), if ata_port_alloc(host) fails to allocate memory
> for a port, the allocated 'host' structure is not freed before returning
> from the function. This results in a potential memory leak.
> 
> This patch adds a kfree(host) before the error handling code is executed
> to ensure that the 'host' structure is properly freed in case of an
> allocation failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Qixing <zhengqixing@xxxxxxxxxx>

This needs a Fixes tag. So I added:

Fixes: 2623c7a5f279 ("libata: add refcounting to ata_host")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

and applied to for-6.11-fixes. Thanks.

> ---
> Changes in v2:
>  - error path is wrong in v1
> 
>  drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> index e4023fc288ac..f27a18990c38 100644
> --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> @@ -5663,8 +5663,10 @@ struct ata_host *ata_host_alloc(struct device *dev, int n_ports)
>  	}
>  
>  	dr = devres_alloc(ata_devres_release, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!dr)
> +	if (!dr) {
> +		kfree(host);
>  		goto err_out;
> +	}
>  
>  	devres_add(dev, dr);
>  	dev_set_drvdata(dev, host);

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research