This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
RDMA/mlx5: Fix memory leak in error flow for subscribe event routine
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rdma-mlx5-fix-memory-leak-in-error-flow-for-subscrib.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 887f140398371fe55c3af642153344c660ca0f23
Author: Yongzhi Liu <lyz_cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Mar 11 09:06:01 2022 -0800
RDMA/mlx5: Fix memory leak in error flow for subscribe event routine
[ Upstream commit 087f9c3f2309ed183f7e4b85ae57121d8663224d ]
In case the second xa_insert() fails, the obj_event is not released. Fix
the error unwind flow to free that memory to avoid a memory leak.
Fixes: 759738537142 ("IB/mlx5: Enable subscription for device events over DEVX")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1647018361-18266-1-git-send-email-lyz_cs@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yongzhi Liu <lyz_cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c
index e95967aefe78..21beded40066 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c
@@ -1891,8 +1891,10 @@ subscribe_event_xa_alloc(struct mlx5_devx_event_table *devx_event_table,
key_level2,
obj_event,
GFP_KERNEL);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
+ kfree(obj_event);
return err;
+ }
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&obj_event->obj_sub_list);
}
