* [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: fix memory leak on krealloc failure in papr_init
@ 2026-06-14 14:23 Thorsten Blum
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From: Thorsten Blum @ 2026-06-14 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Nicholas Piggin,
Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP), Kees Cook, Pratik R. Sampat
Cc: Thorsten Blum, stable, linuxppc-dev, linux-kernel
When krealloc() fails, free the original esi_buf before returning to
avoid a memory leak.
Fixes: 3c14b73454cf ("powerpc/pseries: Interface to represent PAPR firmware attributes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_platform_attributes.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_platform_attributes.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_platform_attributes.c
index ff8adda02341..aacdaa1ebf63 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_platform_attributes.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_platform_attributes.c
@@ -271,11 +271,9 @@ static int __init papr_init(void)
esi_buf_size = ESI_HDR_SIZE + (CURR_MAX_ESI_ATTRS * max_esi_attrs);
temp_esi_buf = krealloc(esi_buf, esi_buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (temp_esi_buf)
- esi_buf = temp_esi_buf;
- else
- return -ENOMEM;
-
+ if (!temp_esi_buf)
+ goto out_free_esi_buf;
+ esi_buf = temp_esi_buf;
goto retry;
}
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