[PATCH] s390/mm: Fix memory leak in add_marker() when kvrealloc fails

From: Miaoqian Lin
Date: Sun Oct 26 2025 - 05:14:23 EST


When kvrealloc() fails, the original markers memory is leaked
because the function directly assigns the NULL to the markers pointer,
losing the reference to the original memory.

As a result, the kvfree() in pt_dump_init() ends up freeing NULL instead
of the previously allocated memory.

Fix this by using a temporary variable to store kvrealloc()'s return
value and only update the markers pointer on success.

Found via static anlaysis and this is similar to commit 42378a9ca553
("bpf, verifier: Fix memory leak in array reallocation for stack state")

Fixes: d0e7915d2ad3 ("s390/mm/ptdump: Generate address marker array dynamically")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c b/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c
index 9af2aae0a515..0f2e0c93a1e0 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c
@@ -291,16 +291,19 @@ static int ptdump_cmp(const void *a, const void *b)

static int add_marker(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, const char *name)
{
+ struct addr_marker *new_markers;
size_t oldsize, newsize;

oldsize = markers_cnt * sizeof(*markers);
newsize = oldsize + 2 * sizeof(*markers);
if (!oldsize)
- markers = kvmalloc(newsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ new_markers = kvmalloc(newsize, GFP_KERNEL);
else
- markers = kvrealloc(markers, newsize, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!markers)
+ new_markers = kvrealloc(markers, newsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!new_markers)
goto error;
+
+ markers = new_markers;
markers[markers_cnt].is_start = 1;
markers[markers_cnt].start_address = start;
markers[markers_cnt].size = end - start;
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)