[PATCH v17 05/13] scsi: ibmvfc: fix resource leaks on partial queue allocation failure

From: Dave Marquardt via B4 Relay

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 17:58:38 EST


From: Dave Marquardt <davemarq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

ibmvfc_free_queue() unconditionally calls dma_unmap_single() and
free_page() but does not guard either call against a partially or
never-initialized queue. If ibmvfc_alloc_queue() fails before the DMA
mapping is established (e.g. get_zeroed_page() fails or
dma_mapping_error()), msgs.handle and msg_token are both zero/NULL.
Calling dma_unmap_single() with address 0 is unsafe on many
architectures.

Guard dma_unmap_single() and free_page() together under a msgs.handle
check so ibmvfc_free_queue() is safe to call on a partially or
never-initialized queue.

ibmvfc_alloc_queue() also leaks the event pool on both failure paths
after ibmvfc_init_event_pool() succeeds: neither the get_zeroed_page()
failure path nor the dma_mapping_error() failure path calls
ibmvfc_free_event_pool(). No caller compensates, since
ibmvfc_init_crq() returns immediately on ibmvfc_alloc_queue() failure,
ibmvfc_alloc_channels() only unwinds previously succeeded queues, and
ibmvfc_alloc_mem() jumps to a label that does not free the failed queue.
Add ibmvfc_free_event_pool() calls on both error paths in
ibmvfc_alloc_queue() to close the leak.

Signed-off-by: Dave Marquardt <davemarq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc-core.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc-core.c b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc-core.c
index 77c685f6f959..e04c80050b98 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc-core.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc-core.c
@@ -914,9 +914,11 @@ static void ibmvfc_free_queue(struct ibmvfc_host *vhost,
{
struct device *dev = vhost->dev;

- dma_unmap_single(dev, queue->msg_token, PAGE_SIZE, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
- free_page((unsigned long)queue->msgs.handle);
- queue->msgs.handle = NULL;
+ if (queue->msgs.handle) {
+ dma_unmap_single(dev, queue->msg_token, PAGE_SIZE, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
+ free_page((unsigned long)queue->msgs.handle);
+ queue->msgs.handle = NULL;
+ }

ibmvfc_free_event_pool(vhost, queue);
}
@@ -6303,8 +6305,10 @@ static int ibmvfc_alloc_queue(struct ibmvfc_host *vhost,
}

queue->msgs.handle = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!queue->msgs.handle)
+ if (!queue->msgs.handle) {
+ ibmvfc_free_event_pool(vhost, queue);
return -ENOMEM;
+ }

queue->msg_token = dma_map_single(dev, queue->msgs.handle, PAGE_SIZE,
DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
@@ -6312,6 +6316,7 @@ static int ibmvfc_alloc_queue(struct ibmvfc_host *vhost,
if (dma_mapping_error(dev, queue->msg_token)) {
free_page((unsigned long)queue->msgs.handle);
queue->msgs.handle = NULL;
+ ibmvfc_free_event_pool(vhost, queue);
return -ENOMEM;
}


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