* Wenwen Wang <wang6495@xxxxxxx> wrote: > In pcibios_irq_init(), the PCI IRQ routing table 'pirq_table' is firstly > found through pirq_find_routing_table(). If the table is not found and > 'CONFIG_PCI_BIOS' is defined, the table is then allocated in > pcibios_get_irq_routing_table() using kmalloc(). In the following > execution, if the I/O APIC is used, this table is actually not used. > However, in that case, the allocated table is not freed, which can lead to > a memory leak bug. > > To fix this issue, this patch frees the allocated table if it is not used. > > Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@xxxxxxx> > --- > arch/x86/pci/irq.c | 10 ++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/irq.c b/arch/x86/pci/irq.c > index 52e5510..d9bcb96 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/pci/irq.c > +++ b/arch/x86/pci/irq.c > @@ -1119,6 +1119,8 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id pciirq_dmi_table[] __initconst = { > > void __init pcibios_irq_init(void) > { > + struct irq_routing_table *itable = NULL; > + Minor style nit: the canonical name of irq_routing_table local variables is usually 'rtable' or 'rt' - let's not add a third naming variant with 'itable'? > DBG(KERN_DEBUG "PCI: IRQ init\n"); > > if (raw_pci_ops == NULL) > @@ -1129,8 +1131,10 @@ void __init pcibios_irq_init(void) > pirq_table = pirq_find_routing_table(); > > #ifdef CONFIG_PCI_BIOS > - if (!pirq_table && (pci_probe & PCI_BIOS_IRQ_SCAN)) > + if (!pirq_table && (pci_probe & PCI_BIOS_IRQ_SCAN)) { > pirq_table = pcibios_get_irq_routing_table(); > + itable = pirq_table; > + } > #endif > if (pirq_table) { > pirq_peer_trick(); > @@ -1145,8 +1149,10 @@ void __init pcibios_irq_init(void) > * If we're using the I/O APIC, avoid using the PCI IRQ > * routing table > */ > - if (io_apic_assign_pci_irqs) > + if (io_apic_assign_pci_irqs) { > + kfree(itable); > pirq_table = NULL; > + } Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Ingo