On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 3:36 PM Wenwen Wang <wang6495@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In bio_integrity_prep(), a kernel buffer is allocated through kmalloc() to
> hold integrity metadata. Later on, the buffer will be attached to the bio
> structure through bio_integrity_add_page(), which returns the number of
> bytes of integrity metadata attached. Due to unexpected situations,
> bio_integrity_add_page() may return 0. As a result, bio_integrity_prep()
> needs to be terminated with 'false' returned to indicate this error.
> However, the allocated kernel buffer is not freed on this execution path,
> leading to a memory leak.
>
> To fix this issue, free the allocated buffer before returning from
> bio_integrity_prep().
>
> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> block/bio-integrity.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/bio-integrity.c b/block/bio-integrity.c
> index 4db6208..bfae10c 100644
> --- a/block/bio-integrity.c
> +++ b/block/bio-integrity.c
> @@ -276,8 +276,10 @@ bool bio_integrity_prep(struct bio *bio)
> ret = bio_integrity_add_page(bio, virt_to_page(buf),
> bytes, offset);
>
> - if (ret == 0)
> + if (ret == 0) {
> + kfree(buf);
> return false;
> + }
This way may not be enough, and the bio payload needs to be freed.
And you may refer to the error handling for 'IS_ERR(bip)', and bio->bi_status
needs to be set, and bio_endio() needs to be called too.
Thanks,
Ming Lei
