[PATCH] dmaengine: loongson2-apb-cmc: fix descriptor leak in prep_slave_sg()

From: Diego Fernando Mancera Gomez

Date: Sat Sep 05 2026 - 02:29:15 EST


loongson2_cmc_dma_prep_slave_sg() allocates the descriptor with
kzalloc_flex() before iterating over the scatterlist. If
loongson2_cmc_dma_set_xfer_param() fails inside the loop, the function
returns ERR_PTR(ret) without freeing the descriptor. At this point the
descriptor has not been handed to vchan_tx_prep() yet, so nothing else
will ever free it, leaking it on every failed ->device_prep_slave_sg()
call (e.g. an unsupported transfer direction or bus width).

The neighbouring error path for the num_items check already frees the
descriptor before returning; do the same on the set_xfer_param() failure
path.

Fixes: 1c0028e725f1 ("dmaengine: loongson: New driver for the Loongson Multi-Channel DMA controller")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260818094957.7D2221F000E9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Diego Fernando Mancera Gomez <diegomancera.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012bUV3WshMSfTq61n1cgh1i
---
drivers/dma/loongson/loongson2-apb-cmc-dma.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/loongson/loongson2-apb-cmc-dma.c b/drivers/dma/loongson/loongson2-apb-cmc-dma.c
index 1c9a542edc85..60eb4d961610 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/loongson/loongson2-apb-cmc-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/loongson/loongson2-apb-cmc-dma.c
@@ -404,8 +404,10 @@ loongson2_cmc_dma_prep_slave_sg(struct dma_chan *chan, struct scatterlist *sgl,

for_each_sg(sgl, sg, sg_len, i) {
ret = loongson2_cmc_dma_set_xfer_param(lchan, direction, &buswidth, sg_dma_len(sg));
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ kfree(desc);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
+ }

num_items = DIV_ROUND_UP(sg_dma_len(sg), buswidth);
if (num_items >= LOONSON2_CMCDMA_MAX_DATA_ITEMS) {
--
2.55.0