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

[Andrew Donnellan]

On 18/5/19 12:20 am, Frederic Barrat wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd at linux.ibm.com>

> ---
>   drivers/misc/ocxl/context.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/ocxl/context.c b/drivers/misc/ocxl/context.c
> index bab9c9364184..ab93156aa83e 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/context.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/context.c
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ int ocxl_context_alloc(struct ocxl_context **context, struct ocxl_afu *afu,
>   			afu->pasid_base + afu->pasid_max, GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (pasid < 0) {
>   		mutex_unlock(&afu->contexts_lock);
> +		kfree(*context);

(defensive programming: set *context = NULL so that if the caller 
ignores the return code we get an obvious crash)

>   		return pasid;
>   	}
>   	afu->pasid_count++;
> 

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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd at linux.ibm.com             IBM Australia Limited