This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vfio/pci: fix potential memory leak in vfio_intx_enable()
to the 6.8-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:
vfio-pci-fix-potential-memory-leak-in-vfio_intx_enab.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit d38a2d654b046eaf82ab1f630bddaac99708e81e
Author: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Apr 15 09:50:29 2024 +0800
vfio/pci: fix potential memory leak in vfio_intx_enable()
[ Upstream commit 82b951e6fbd31d85ae7f4feb5f00ddd4c5d256e2 ]
If vfio_irq_ctx_alloc() failed will lead to 'name' memory leak.
Fixes: 18c198c96a81 ("vfio/pci: Create persistent INTx handler")
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240415015029.3699844-1-yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c
index fb5392b749fff..e80c5d75b5419 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c
@@ -277,8 +277,10 @@ static int vfio_intx_enable(struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev,
return -ENOMEM;
ctx = vfio_irq_ctx_alloc(vdev, 0);
- if (!ctx)
+ if (!ctx) {
+ kfree(name);
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
ctx->name = name;
ctx->trigger = trigger;
