From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:09:28 +0000 Subject: [patch -next] blk-mq: NULL dereference in __blk_mq_alloc_rq_maps() Message-Id: <20140913080928.GA6469@mwanda> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jens Axboe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" We shouldn't set "set->tags" to NULL here because if we return -ENOMEM here then we call the function a second time. On the second time through the loop then the statement: set->tags[i] = blk_mq_init_rq_map(set, i); will Oops. Also it is a memory leak and a layering violation. There is a correct call to kfree(set->tags) in blk_mq_alloc_tag_set(). Fixes: a516440542af ('blk-mq: scale depth and rq map appropriate if low on memory') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c index 3d863df..7e7ca57 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq.c +++ b/block/blk-mq.c @@ -1961,7 +1961,6 @@ out_unwind: while (--i >= 0) blk_mq_free_rq_map(set, set->tags[i], i); - set->tags = NULL; return -ENOMEM; }