[PATCH] iommu/vt-d: Fix copied_tables bitmap leak on error in copy_translation_tables

From: ZhaoJinming

Date: Tue Jul 21 2026 - 09:33:28 EST


The iommu->copied_tables bitmap was introduced by the IOMMU live
update series to track which context entries have been copied from
the previous kernel. The allocation via bitmap_zalloc() was added
inside copy_translation_tables(), but the error paths were not
updated to free it:

1. When old_rt_phys is 0 (invalid root table address)
2. When memremap(old_rt_phys) fails
3. When kcalloc for ctxt_tbls fails (goto out_unmap, which only
unmaps old_rt without releasing the bitmap)

The bitmap is only cleaned up by free_dmar_iommu(), which is
called from the free_iommu error label in init_dmars(). However,
when copy_translation_tables() fails, init_dmars() does not jump
to free_iommu -- it logs the error, falls through, and continues
with the next IOMMU. As a result, copied_tables is leaked.

Fix this by converting the two early returns to goto a new
err_free_bitmap label, and by making out_unmap fall through to
it so that the bitmap is always freed on any error path. The
success path is changed to return 0 directly instead of falling
through to out_unmap, since copied_tables must remain allocated
for subsequent use.

Signed-off-by: ZhaoJinming <zhaojinming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
index 849d06dfe1ae..25f49d29da8a 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c
@@ -1554,12 +1554,16 @@ static int copy_translation_tables(struct intel_iommu *iommu)
return -ENOMEM;

old_rt_phys = rtaddr_reg & VTD_PAGE_MASK;
- if (!old_rt_phys)
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (!old_rt_phys) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto err_free_bitmap;
+ }

old_rt = memremap(old_rt_phys, PAGE_SIZE, MEMREMAP_WB);
- if (!old_rt)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ if (!old_rt) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_free_bitmap;
+ }

/* This is too big for the stack - allocate it from slab */
ctxt_table_entries = ext ? 512 : 256;
@@ -1603,11 +1607,13 @@ static int copy_translation_tables(struct intel_iommu *iommu)

__iommu_flush_cache(iommu, iommu->root_entry, PAGE_SIZE);

- ret = 0;
+ return 0;

out_unmap:
memunmap(old_rt);
-
+err_free_bitmap:
+ bitmap_free(iommu->copied_tables);
+ iommu->copied_tables = NULL;
return ret;
}

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2.20.1