From: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
To: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>, Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>,
Frank Li <Frank.Li@kernel.org>,
dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@hpe.com>, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com>,
bogdan.codres@windriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] dmaengine: idxd: fix duplicate memory frees on initialization error path.
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:57:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87echsiyur.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260522203414.336549-2-steve.wahl@hpe.com>
Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com> writes:
> Error paths within idxd_pci_probe_alloc and related functions end up
> attempting to free memory already freed from idxd_conf_device_release
> via put_device.
>
> This was encountered running in a kexec'd kdump kernel with reduced
> resources, causing the "Device is HALTED!" branch in
> idxd_device_init_reset to be taken.
>
> In idxd_free and idxd_alloc, do not attempt to free allocations that
> will already have been freed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
> ---
Bogdan Codres series (but submitted a bit later), tries to fix this
issue, has a better splat and a reproducer, I think it makes sense to
add the splat and reproducer here, and add Bogdan as Reported-by (if
agreed, of course).
I am wondering about adding a third patch for the dangling ->wq pointer, as
reported by Sashiko would make sense.
Something like this might do the job (totally untested):
diff --git a/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c b/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
index f1cfc7790d95..0a74018f31a8 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
@@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ static void idxd_cleanup_internals(struct idxd_device *idxd)
idxd_clean_engines(idxd);
idxd_clean_wqs(idxd);
destroy_workqueue(idxd->wq);
+ idxd->wq = NULL;
}
How does it sound?
> v2: split into two patches as requested by Vinicius Costa
>
> drivers/dma/idxd/init.c | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c b/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
> index f1cfc7790d95..227e323cc5a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
> @@ -607,9 +607,6 @@ static void idxd_free(struct idxd_device *idxd)
> return;
>
> put_device(idxd_confdev(idxd));
> - bitmap_free(idxd->opcap_bmap);
> - ida_free(&idxd_ida, idxd->id);
> - kfree(idxd);
> }
>
> static struct idxd_device *idxd_alloc(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct idxd_driver_data *data)
> @@ -649,8 +646,13 @@ static struct idxd_device *idxd_alloc(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct idxd_driver_d
> return idxd;
>
> err_name:
> + /*
> + * once device_initialize(conf_dev) is called,
> + * put_device(conf_dev) will end up calling
> + * idxd_conf_device_release() which will free the rest.
> + */
> put_device(conf_dev);
> - bitmap_free(idxd->opcap_bmap);
> + return NULL;
> err_opcap:
> ida_free(&idxd_ida, idxd->id);
> err_ida:
> --
> 2.51.0
>
--
Vinicius
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-27 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-22 20:34 [PATCH v2 1/2] dmaengine: idxd: Do not call destroy_workqueue with null idxd->wq Steve Wahl
2026-05-22 20:34 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] dmaengine: idxd: fix duplicate memory frees on initialization error path Steve Wahl
2026-05-22 22:51 ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-27 0:57 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes [this message]
2026-05-22 21:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] dmaengine: idxd: Do not call destroy_workqueue with null idxd->wq sashiko-bot
2026-06-27 0:47 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
2026-06-27 0:49 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
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