Re: [PATCH] drivers: nvdimm: fix memleak

From: Jeff Moyer
Date: Thu Aug 17 2023 - 10:28:27 EST


Konstantin Meskhidze <konstantin.meskhidze@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Memory pointed by 'nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups' is allocated in function
> 'register_nvdimm_pmu' and is lost after 'kfree(nd_pmu)' call in function
> 'unregister_nvdimm_pmu'.
>
> Co-developed-by: Ivanov Mikhail <ivanov.mikhail1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Meskhidze <konstantin.meskhidze@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/nvdimm/nd_perf.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/nd_perf.c b/drivers/nvdimm/nd_perf.c
> index 433bbb68a..14881c4e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/nd_perf.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/nd_perf.c
> @@ -323,7 +323,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_nvdimm_pmu);
> void unregister_nvdimm_pmu(struct nvdimm_pmu *nd_pmu)
> {
> perf_pmu_unregister(&nd_pmu->pmu);
> nvdimm_pmu_free_hotplug_memory(nd_pmu);
> + kfree(nd_pmu->pmu.attr_groups);
> kfree(nd_pmu);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_nvdimm_pmu);

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>