[PATCH v3] ocxl: Fix potential memory leak on context creation

Frederic Barrat fbarrat at linux.ibm.com
Mon Dec 9 21:55:13 AEDT 2019


If we couldn't fully init a context, we were leaking memory.

Fixes: b9721d275cc2 ("ocxl: Allow external drivers to use OpenCAPI contexts")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat at linux.ibm.com>
---
Changlog:
v3:
	code cleanup (Greg)
v2:
	reset context pointer in case of allocation failure (Andrew)


 drivers/misc/ocxl/context.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/ocxl/context.c b/drivers/misc/ocxl/context.c
index 994563a078eb..de8a66b9d76b 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/context.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/context.c
@@ -10,18 +10,17 @@ int ocxl_context_alloc(struct ocxl_context **context, struct ocxl_afu *afu,
 	int pasid;
 	struct ocxl_context *ctx;
 
-	*context = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ocxl_context), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!*context)
+	ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ctx)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	ctx = *context;
-
 	ctx->afu = afu;
 	mutex_lock(&afu->contexts_lock);
 	pasid = idr_alloc(&afu->contexts_idr, ctx, afu->pasid_base,
 			afu->pasid_base + afu->pasid_max, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (pasid < 0) {
 		mutex_unlock(&afu->contexts_lock);
+		kfree(ctx);
 		return pasid;
 	}
 	afu->pasid_count++;
@@ -43,6 +42,7 @@ int ocxl_context_alloc(struct ocxl_context **context, struct ocxl_afu *afu,
 	 * duration of the life of the context
 	 */
 	ocxl_afu_get(afu);
+	*context = ctx;
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ocxl_context_alloc);
-- 
2.21.0



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