[PATCH] scsi: arcmsr: fix DMA memory and IO queue leak on arcmsr_alloc_ccb_pool() failure

From: Ivy Lopez

Date: Fri Aug 07 2026 - 14:51:11 EST


If arcmsr_alloc_ccb_pool() fails in arcmsr_probe(), the error path
jumps directly to unmap_pci_region, bypassing the free_ccb_pool
label entirely. This leaks the CCB pool DMA allocation
(acb->dma_coherent) whenever arcmsr_alloc_ccb_pool() fails after
successfully allocating it, e.g. when the later
arcmsr_alloc_xor_buffer() call fails.

For ACB_ADAPTER_TYPE_F adapters specifically, the IO queue allocated
earlier by arcmsr_alloc_io_queue() is also never freed on this path:
other adapter types free their IO queue before calling
arcmsr_alloc_ccb_pool() (since its space is folded into the CCB
pool's own allocation), but type F does not, so it remains allocated
and leaked if arcmsr_alloc_ccb_pool() subsequently fails.

Fix this by routing arcmsr_alloc_ccb_pool() failure through the
existing free_ccb_pool label, and explicitly freeing the IO queue
for type F adapters beforehand. arcmsr_free_ccb_pool() is safe to
call here regardless of how far arcmsr_alloc_ccb_pool() got:
dma_free_coherent() is a no-op on a NULL address, and acb is
zero-initialized via scsi_host_alloc()'s kzalloc(), so
acb->dma_coherent and acb->xor_mega are both safely zero if
arcmsr_alloc_ccb_pool() failed before setting them.

Found via review feedback on a related fix (commit afa04c2998e4,
"scsi: arcmsr: fix NULL deref on dma_alloc_coherent() failure in
arcmsr_alloc_xor_buffer()").

Signed-off-by: Ivy Lopez <skunkolee@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ching Huang <ching2048@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c b/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c
index 40407b281839..d8e56d7b1906 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c
@@ -1150,7 +1150,9 @@ static int arcmsr_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
arcmsr_free_io_queue(acb);
error = arcmsr_alloc_ccb_pool(acb);
if(error){
- goto unmap_pci_region;
+ if (acb->adapter_type == ACB_ADAPTER_TYPE_F)
+ arcmsr_free_io_queue(acb);
+ goto free_ccb_pool;
}
error = scsi_add_host(host, &pdev->dev);
if(error){
--
2.55.0