Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] KVM: add missing kvm_put_kvm in case of failure

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Jun 27 2017 - 09:08:48 EST




On 27/06/2017 13:57, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> If I'm not missing anything, in case kvm_create_vm_debugfs fails, we
> will have a memory leak due to not freeing the kvm object.
>
> A call to kvm_put_kvm was accidentally removed from an error handling in
> commit 506cfba9e726 ("KVM: don't use anon_inode_getfd() before possible failures")
>
> This patch simply restores the call to kvm_put_kvm, so that the kvm
> object is destroyed before returning an error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 506cfba9e726 ("KVM: don't use anon_inode_getfd() before possible failures")
> ---
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index f0fe9d0..257d2a8 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -3194,6 +3194,7 @@ static int kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm(unsigned long type)
> if (kvm_create_vm_debugfs(kvm, r) < 0) {
> put_unused_fd(r);
> fput(file);
> + kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
>
>

Queued, thanks.

Paolo