Re: [PATCH v2] ksmbd: prevent memory leak on error return

From: Zongmin Zhou
Date: Sun Nov 19 2023 - 20:39:45 EST



On 2023/11/19 22:17, Namjae Jeon wrote:
2023-11-19 18:14 GMT+09:00, Pierre Mariani <pierre.mariani@xxxxxxxxx>:
On 11/8/2023 5:17 PM, Zongmin Zhou wrote:
When allocated memory for 'new' failed,just return
will cause memory leak of 'ar'.

v2: rollback iov_alloc_cnt when allocate memory failed.

Fixes: 1819a9042999 ("ksmbd: reorganize ksmbd_iov_pin_rsp()")

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202311031837.H3yo7JVl-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Zongmin Zhou<zhouzongmin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/smb/server/ksmbd_work.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/smb/server/ksmbd_work.c b/fs/smb/server/ksmbd_work.c
index a2ed441e837a..44bce4c56daf 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/ksmbd_work.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/ksmbd_work.c
@@ -123,8 +123,11 @@ static int __ksmbd_iov_pin_rsp(struct ksmbd_work
*work, void *ib, int len,
new = krealloc(work->iov,
sizeof(struct kvec) * work->iov_alloc_cnt,
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
- if (!new)
+ if (!new) {
+ kfree(ar);
+ work->iov_alloc_cnt -= 4;
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
work->iov = new;
}

A few lines above, ar is allocated inside the 'if (aux_size)' block.
If aux_size is falsy, isn't it possible that ar will be NULL hence
we should have 'if (ar) kfree(ar);'?
We need to initialize ar to NULL on that case. And Passing a NULL
pointer to kfree is safe, So NULL check before kfree() is not needed.
Yes, ar should be initialized to NULL to avoid the case of  aux_size will be false.
Since kfree(NULL) is safe.
Should I  send another patch for this?

Best regards!
Thanks.