[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: fix potential memory leak in init_cpu_associativity()

wangyufen wangyufen at huawei.com
Wed Dec 14 17:51:44 AEDT 2022



在 2022/12/13 14:06, Naveen N. Rao 写道:
> Wang Yufen wrote:
>> If the vcpu_associativity alloc memory successfully but the
>> pcpu_associativity fails to alloc memory, the vcpu_associativity
>> memory leaks.
>>
>> Fixes: d62c8deeb6e6 ("powerpc/pseries: Provide vcpu dispatch statistics")
>> Signed-off-by: Wang Yufen <wangyufen at huawei.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c 
>> b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
>> index 97ef649..501ee6c 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
>> @@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ static int init_cpu_associativity(void)
>>
>>      if (!vcpu_associativity || !pcpu_associativity) {
>>          pr_err("error allocating memory for associativity 
>> information\n");
>> +        kfree(vcpu_associativity);
> 
> I think we should call destroy_cpu_associativity() here instead. We 
> don't know which allocation failed, so it is better to try and free 
> both, and also to reset the pointers to 0.

Hi,

Okay, I'll send a v2 with the following modifications:

--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
@@ -524,8 +524,10 @@ static ssize_t vcpudispatch_stats_write(struct file 
*file, const char __user *p,

  	if (cmd) {
  		rc = init_cpu_associativity();
-		if (rc)
+		if (rc) {
+			destroy_cpu_associativity();
  			goto out;
+		}

  		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
  			disp = per_cpu_ptr(&vcpu_disp_data, cpu);

Thanks,
Wang

> 
> 
> - Naveen
> 
> 


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