Re: [PATCH next] kvm: debugfs: fix memory leak in kvm_create_vm_debugfs

From: Jing Zhang
Date: Thu Jul 01 2021 - 17:26:24 EST


On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 2:55 PM Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In commit bc9e9e672df9 ("KVM: debugfs: Reuse binary stats descriptors")
> loop for filling debugfs_stat_data was copy-pasted 2 times, but
> in the second loop pointers are saved over pointers allocated
> in the first loop. It causes memory leak. Fix it.
>
> Fixes: bc9e9e672df9 ("KVM: debugfs: Reuse binary stats descriptors")
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 7d95126cda9e..986959833d70 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ static int kvm_create_vm_debugfs(struct kvm *kvm, int fd)
> stat_data->kvm = kvm;
> stat_data->desc = pdesc;
> stat_data->kind = KVM_STAT_VCPU;
> - kvm->debugfs_stat_data[i] = stat_data;
> + kvm->debugfs_stat_data[i + kvm_vm_stats_header.num_desc] = stat_data;
Pavel, thanks for fixing this.

Reviewed-by: Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> debugfs_create_file(pdesc->name, kvm_stats_debugfs_mode(pdesc),
> kvm->debugfs_dentry, stat_data,
> &stat_fops_per_vm);
> --
> 2.32.0
>