[PATCH v2] s390/mm: Fix memory leak in add_marker() when kvrealloc fails

From: Miaoqian Lin
Date: Mon Oct 27 2025 - 11:17:24 EST


The function has a memory leak when kvrealloc() fails.
The function directly assigns NULL to the markers pointer, losing the
reference to the previously allocated memory. This causes kvfree() in
pt_dump_init() to free NULL instead of the leaked memory.

Fix by:
1. Using kvrealloc() uniformly for all allocations
2. Using a temporary variable to preserve the original pointer until
allocation succeeds
3. Removing the error path that sets markers_cnt=0 to keep
consistency between markers and markers_cnt

Found via static analysis 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>
---
changes in v2:
- update the fixing logic to prevent memory leak in v1
v1 link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251026091351.36275-1-linmq006@xxxxxxxxx/
---
arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 22 +++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c b/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c
index 9af2aae0a515..ab0c1fcf2782 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c
@@ -291,16 +291,15 @@ static int ptdump_cmp(const void *a, const void *b)

static int add_marker(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, const char *name)
{
- size_t oldsize, newsize;
-
- oldsize = markers_cnt * sizeof(*markers);
- newsize = oldsize + 2 * sizeof(*markers);
- if (!oldsize)
- markers = kvmalloc(newsize, GFP_KERNEL);
- else
- markers = kvrealloc(markers, newsize, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!markers)
- goto error;
+ struct addr_marker *new_markers;
+ size_t newsize;
+
+ newsize = (markers_cnt + 2) * sizeof(*markers);
+ new_markers = kvrealloc(markers, newsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!new_markers)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ markers = new_markers;
markers[markers_cnt].is_start = 1;
markers[markers_cnt].start_address = start;
markers[markers_cnt].size = end - start;
@@ -312,9 +311,6 @@ static int add_marker(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, const char *name)
markers[markers_cnt].name = name;
markers_cnt++;
return 0;
-error:
- markers_cnt = 0;
- return -ENOMEM;
}

static int pt_dump_init(void)
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)