Re: [PATCH] pci/msi: fix memory leak in free_msi_irqs()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jun 05 2014 - 19:59:20 EST


On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 03:49:50PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> free_msi_irqs() is leaking memory, since
> list_for_each_entry(entry, &dev->msi_list, list) {...}
> is never executed, because dev->msi_list is made empty by
> the loop just above this one.
>
> Fix it by relying on zero termination of attribute array like
> populate_msi_sysfs() does.
>
> Fixes: 1c51b50c2995 ("PCI/MSI: Export MSI mode using attributes, not kobjects")
> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This was found by kmemleak report:
> unreferenced object 0xffff880808eda600 (size 64):
> comm "modprobe", pid 1526, jiffies 4294902299 (age 58422.716s)
> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 20 c4 66 09 08 88 ff ff 24 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 .f.....$.......
> 50 97 77 82 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 P.w.............
> backtrace:
> [<ffffffff816e5fc8>] kmemleak_alloc+0x28/0x50
> [<ffffffff811b885e>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xde/0x230
> [<ffffffff813aa286>] populate_msi_sysfs+0xc6/0x250
> [<ffffffff813aafdb>] pci_enable_msix+0x34b/0x430
> [<ffffffff813ab0ec>] pci_enable_msix_range+0x2c/0x70
> [<ffffffffa0034ade>] igb_init_interrupt_scheme+0x9e/0x420 [igb]
> [<ffffffffa003d668>] igb_probe+0x4a8/0x1250 [igb]
> [<ffffffff813930de>] local_pci_probe+0x4e/0xa0
> [<ffffffff813933e9>] pci_device_probe+0xd9/0x120
> [<ffffffff814697cd>] driver_probe_device+0x8d/0x250
> [<ffffffff81469a3b>] __driver_attach+0xab/0xb0
> [<ffffffff8146799d>] bus_for_each_dev+0x5d/0xa0
> [<ffffffff814691de>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
> [<ffffffff81468e57>] bus_add_driver+0x117/0x220
> [<ffffffff8146a104>] driver_register+0x64/0xf0
> [<ffffffff813923f4>] __pci_register_driver+0x64/0x70
>
> IGB driver is calling pci_enable_msix_range() and immediately pci_disable_msix()
> which leaks the memory.
> Obviously the leak happens with any driver.
>
> drivers/pci/msi.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/msi.c b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> index 955ab7990c5b..fb02fc2fb034 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/msi.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ static void free_msi_irqs(struct pci_dev *dev)
> if (dev->msi_irq_groups) {
> sysfs_remove_groups(&dev->dev.kobj, dev->msi_irq_groups);
> msi_attrs = dev->msi_irq_groups[0]->attrs;
> - list_for_each_entry(entry, &dev->msi_list, list) {
> + while (msi_attrs[count]) {
> dev_attr = container_of(msi_attrs[count],
> struct device_attribute, attr);
> kfree(dev_attr->attr.name);

Looks good, thanks for catching this:

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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