We just return failure in this case, but we need to release the iovec first. If we're doing IO with more than FAST_IOV segments, then the iovec is allocated and must be freed. Reported-by: syzbot+96b43810dfe9c3bb95ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 584b0180f0f4 ("io_uring: move read/write file prep state into actual opcode handler") Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index 4479013854d2..24409dd07239 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -3832,8 +3832,10 @@ static int io_read(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned int issue_flags) iovec = NULL; } ret = io_rw_init_file(req, FMODE_READ); - if (unlikely(ret)) + if (unlikely(ret)) { + kfree(iovec); return ret; + } req->result = iov_iter_count(&s->iter); if (force_nonblock) { @@ -3958,8 +3960,10 @@ static int io_write(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned int issue_flags) iovec = NULL; } ret = io_rw_init_file(req, FMODE_WRITE); - if (unlikely(ret)) + if (unlikely(ret)) { + kfree(iovec); return ret; + } req->result = iov_iter_count(&s->iter); if (force_nonblock) { -- Jens Axboe