Re: [PATCH] KVM: fix memoryleak in kvm_init()

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Sep 01 2022 - 19:18:10 EST


On 8/30/22 23:36, Sean Christopherson wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022, Miaohe Lin wrote:
When alloc_cpumask_var_node() fails for a certain cpu, there might be some
allocated cpumasks for percpu cpu_kick_mask. We should free these cpumasks
or memoryleak will occur.

Fixes: baff59ccdc65 ("KVM: Pre-allocate cpumasks for kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except()")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Pushed to branch `for_paolo/6.1` at:

https://github.com/sean-jc/linux.git

Unless you hear otherwise, it will make its way to kvm/queue "soon".

Note, the commit IDs are not guaranteed to be stable.

Hmm, I was going to merge these memory leak fixes for 6.0, but no big deal since they're mostly theoretical anyway.

Paolo