This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/xen: Fix memory leak in xen_init_lock_cpu()
to the 4.19-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:
x86-xen-fix-memory-leak-in-xen_init_lock_cpu.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 1010302ffd06561db1466795f4b59364c53a4feb
Author: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 23 23:58:58 2022 +0800
x86/xen: Fix memory leak in xen_init_lock_cpu()
[ Upstream commit ca84ce153d887b1dc8b118029976cc9faf2a9b40 ]
In xen_init_lock_cpu(), the @name has allocated new string by kasprintf(),
if bind_ipi_to_irqhandler() fails, it should be freed, otherwise may lead
to a memory leak issue, fix it.
Fixes: 2d9e1e2f58b5 ("xen: implement Xen-specific spinlocks")
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123155858.11382-3-xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
index 6fffb86a32ad..e6cf1b430fd0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ void xen_init_lock_cpu(int cpu)
cpu, per_cpu(lock_kicker_irq, cpu));
name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "spinlock%d", cpu);
+ per_cpu(irq_name, cpu) = name;
irq = bind_ipi_to_irqhandler(XEN_SPIN_UNLOCK_VECTOR,
cpu,
dummy_handler,
@@ -93,7 +94,6 @@ void xen_init_lock_cpu(int cpu)
if (irq >= 0) {
disable_irq(irq); /* make sure it's never delivered */
per_cpu(lock_kicker_irq, cpu) = irq;
- per_cpu(irq_name, cpu) = name;
}
printk("cpu %d spinlock event irq %d\n", cpu, irq);
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ void xen_uninit_lock_cpu(int cpu)
if (!xen_pvspin)
return;
+ kfree(per_cpu(irq_name, cpu));
+ per_cpu(irq_name, cpu) = NULL;
/*
* When booting the kernel with 'mitigations=auto,nosmt', the secondary
* CPUs are not activated, and lock_kicker_irq is not initialized.
@@ -116,8 +118,6 @@ void xen_uninit_lock_cpu(int cpu)
unbind_from_irqhandler(irq, NULL);
per_cpu(lock_kicker_irq, cpu) = -1;
- kfree(per_cpu(irq_name, cpu));
- per_cpu(irq_name, cpu) = NULL;
}
PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(xen_vcpu_stolen);
