[PATCH] lib: decompress_unxz: fix memory leak of 'in' buffer in single-call mode
From: Ivy Lopez
Date: Tue Aug 25 2026 - 15:14:31 EST
When fill and flush are both NULL (single-call mode), unxz() takes
the xz_dec_run() fast path and skips straight to xz_dec_end(s),
bypassing the free(in)/free(b.out) cleanup that only runs inside the
multi-call (fill/flush) branch. If 'in' was NULL on entry, it gets
allocated locally (must_free_in = true) and is never freed on this
path, leaking XZ_IOBUF_SIZE bytes on every single-call decompression
that doesn't supply its own input buffer.
Move the must_free_in/flush cleanup out of the multi-call branch so
it runs after both paths.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207113
Signed-off-by: Ivy Lopez <skunkolee@xxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/decompress_unxz.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/decompress_unxz.c b/lib/decompress_unxz.c
index 05d5cb490a44..9ccded9934c6 100644
--- a/lib/decompress_unxz.c
+++ b/lib/decompress_unxz.c
@@ -342,13 +342,13 @@ STATIC int INIT unxz(unsigned char *in, long in_size,
b.out_pos = 0;
}
} while (ret == XZ_OK);
+ }
- if (must_free_in)
- free(in);
+ if (must_free_in)
+ free(in);
- if (flush != NULL)
- free(b.out);
- }
+ if (flush != NULL)
+ free(b.out);
if (in_used != NULL)
*in_used += b.in_pos;
--
2.55.0