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

[Frederic Barrat]

Le 20/05/2019 à 03:45, Andrew Donnellan a écrit :
> 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)


Good point. v2 on its way


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