Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Fix memory leak on the error path of vgic_add_lpi()

[Zenghui Yu]

On 2020/4/14 11:03, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> If we're going to fail out the vgic_add_lpi(), let's make sure the
> allocated vgic_irq memory is also freed. Though it seems that both
> cases are unlikely to fail.
>
> Cc: Zengruan Ye <yezengruan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c | 8 ++++++--
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
> index d53d34a33e35..3c3b6a0f2dce 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
> @@ -98,12 +98,16 @@ static struct vgic_irq *vgic_add_lpi(struct kvm *kvm, u32 intid,
>   	 * the respective config data from memory here upon mapping the LPI.
>   	 */
>   	ret = update_lpi_config(kvm, irq, NULL, false);
> -	if (ret)
> +	if (ret) {
> +		kfree(irq);
>   		return ERR_PTR(ret);
> +	}
>   
>   	ret = vgic_v3_lpi_sync_pending_status(kvm, irq);
> -	if (ret)
> +	if (ret) {
> +		kfree(irq);
>   		return ERR_PTR(ret);
> +	}

Looking at it again, I realized that this error handling is still not
complete. Maybe we should use a vgic_put_irq() instead so that we can
also properly delete the vgic_irq from lpi_list.

Marc, what do you think? Could you please help to fix it, or I can
resend it.


Thanks,
Zenghui