This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init()
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:
drm-vkms-fix-memory-leak-in-vkms_init.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 6c1122aa116c53285ab5281b43333fdfb5044df0
Author: Yuan Can <yuancan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Nov 1 06:51:55 2022 +0000
drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init()
[ Upstream commit 0d0b368b9d104b437e1f4850ae94bdb9a3601e89 ]
A memory leak was reported after the vkms module install failed.
unreferenced object 0xffff88810bc28520 (size 16):
comm "modprobe", pid 9662, jiffies 4298009455 (age 42.590s)
hex dump (first 16 bytes):
01 01 00 64 81 88 ff ff 00 00 dc 0a 81 88 ff ff ...d............
backtrace:
[<00000000e7561ff8>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x60
[<000000000b1954a0>] 0xffffffffc45200a9
[<00000000abbf1da0>] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0
[<000000001505ee87>] do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680
[<00000000958079ad>] load_module+0x6249/0x7110
[<00000000117e4696>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200
[<00000000f74b12d2>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<000000008fc6fcde>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
The reason is that the vkms_init() returns without checking the return
value of vkms_create(), and if the vkms_create() failed, the config
allocated at the beginning of vkms_init() is leaked.
vkms_init()
config = kmalloc(...) # config allocated
...
return vkms_create() # vkms_create failed and config is leaked
Fix this problem by checking return value of vkms_create() and free the
config if error happened.
Fixes: 2df7af93fdad ("drm/vkms: Add vkms_config type")
Signed-off-by: Yuan Can <yuancan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Melissa Wen <mwen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Melissa Wen <melissa.srw@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20221101065156.41584-2-yuancan@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
index 0ffe5f0e33f75..dfe983eaa07ff 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.c
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ static int vkms_create(struct vkms_config *config)
static int __init vkms_init(void)
{
+ int ret;
struct vkms_config *config;
config = kmalloc(sizeof(*config), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -230,7 +231,11 @@ static int __init vkms_init(void)
config->writeback = enable_writeback;
config->overlay = enable_overlay;
- return vkms_create(config);
+ ret = vkms_create(config);
+ if (ret)
+ kfree(config);
+
+ return ret;
}
static void vkms_destroy(struct vkms_config *config)
