Forwarded: [PATCH] RDMA/uverbs: Fix radix tree node leak in uapi_add_elm()

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Date: Thu Nov 05 2026 - 08:34:02 EST


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Subject: [PATCH] RDMA/uverbs: Fix radix tree node leak in uapi_add_elm()
Author: kartikey406@xxxxxxxxx

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master



syzbot reported a memory leak of radix_tree_node objects allocated
while registering a siw device:

unreferenced object 0xffff88810d78f488 (size 576):
radix_tree_node_alloc+0x81/0x1a0 lib/radix-tree.c:276
radix_tree_insert+0x140/0x390 lib/radix-tree.c:712
uapi_add_elm+0x61/0x140 drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c:41
uverbs_alloc_api+0x85/0xc50 drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c:659
ib_uverbs_add_one+0x1b1/0x350 drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c:1196
ib_register_device+0x4fe/0x7f0 drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:1503
siw_newlink+0x36a/0x3f0 drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_main.c:433

radix_tree_insert() can fail with -ENOMEM after __radix_tree_create()
has already linked intermediate nodes into the tree, leaving them with
no entries. uapi_add_elm() frees the element on failure, but nothing
frees these empty nodes: uverbs_destroy_api() only removes populated
slots, and radix tree nodes are freed only as a side effect of
deleting an entry. The nodes are therefore leaked when the uapi is
destroyed.

On -ENOMEM, populate the same key with a dummy entry and delete it
again so that radix_tree_delete() reclaims the empty node chain.

Reported-by: syzbot+d60be66dd00b4490fa96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d60be66dd00b4490fa96
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
index b67db3790f03..aa0c980ad1e8 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ static void *uapi_add_elm(struct uverbs_api *uapi, u32 key, size_t alloc_size)
{
void *elm;
int rc;
+ static void *dummy;

if (key == UVERBS_API_KEY_ERR)
return ERR_PTR(-EOVERFLOW);
@@ -27,6 +28,9 @@ static void *uapi_add_elm(struct uverbs_api *uapi, u32 key, size_t alloc_size)
rc = radix_tree_insert(&uapi->radix, key, elm);
if (rc) {
kfree(elm);
+ if (rc == -ENOMEM &&
+ !radix_tree_insert(&uapi->radix, key, &dummy))
+ radix_tree_delete(&uapi->radix, key);
return ERR_PTR(rc);
}

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