Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] dmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_setup_engines

[Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@nvidia.com>]

On 2/14/25 21:44, Shuai Xue wrote:
> Memory allocated for engines is not freed if an error occurs during
> idxd_setup_engines(). To fix it, free the allocated memory in the
> reverse order of allocation before exiting the function in case of an
> error.
>
> Fixes: 75b911309060 ("dmaengine: idxd: fix engine conf_dev lifetime")
> Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@nvidia.com>

> ---
>   drivers/dma/idxd/init.c | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c b/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
> index b85736fd25bd..4e47075c5bef 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/idxd/init.c
> @@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ static int idxd_setup_engines(struct idxd_device *idxd)
>   		rc = dev_set_name(conf_dev, "engine%d.%d", idxd->id, engine->id);
>   		if (rc < 0) {
>   			put_device(conf_dev);
> +			kfree(engine);
>   			goto err;
>   		}
>   
> @@ -290,7 +291,10 @@ static int idxd_setup_engines(struct idxd_device *idxd)
>   		engine = idxd->engines[i];
>   		conf_dev = engine_confdev(engine);
>   		put_device(conf_dev);
> +		kfree(engine);
>   	}
> +	kfree(idxd->engines);
> +
>   	return rc;
>   }
>   


Thanks.


-Fenghua