* [PATCH] block: free copied pages when blk_rq_map_kern() fails
@ 2026-07-15 7:35 Jackie Liu
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From: Jackie Liu @ 2026-07-15 7:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: axboe; +Cc: linux-block
From: Jackie Liu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
bio_copy_kern() allocates pages that are normally freed by the bio
completion callback. If blk_rq_append_bio() rejects the bio, however,
blk_rq_map_kern() only drops the bio reference. Since bio_put() does not
free pages referenced by the bio vectors, those pages leak.
This can happen when the bio exceeds the queue segment constraints or
when a later mapping cannot be merged into a request built by earlier
calls. Track whether the buffer was copied and free those pages before
dropping the rejected bio.
Fixes: 3a5a39276d2a ("block: allow blk_rq_map_kern to append to requests")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: Jackie Liu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
---
block/blk-map.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-map.c b/block/blk-map.c
index 768549f19f97..d1d6bbe0ecf1 100644
--- a/block/blk-map.c
+++ b/block/blk-map.c
@@ -653,6 +653,7 @@ int blk_rq_map_kern(struct request *rq, void *kbuf, unsigned int len,
gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
unsigned long addr = (unsigned long) kbuf;
+ bool do_copy;
struct bio *bio;
int ret;
@@ -661,7 +662,8 @@ int blk_rq_map_kern(struct request *rq, void *kbuf, unsigned int len,
if (!len || !kbuf)
return -EINVAL;
- if (!blk_rq_aligned(rq->q, addr, len) || object_is_on_stack(kbuf))
+ do_copy = !blk_rq_aligned(rq->q, addr, len) || object_is_on_stack(kbuf);
+ if (do_copy)
bio = bio_copy_kern(rq, kbuf, len, gfp_mask);
else
bio = bio_map_kern(rq, kbuf, len, gfp_mask);
@@ -670,8 +672,11 @@ int blk_rq_map_kern(struct request *rq, void *kbuf, unsigned int len,
return PTR_ERR(bio);
ret = blk_rq_append_bio(rq, bio);
- if (unlikely(ret))
+ if (unlikely(ret)) {
+ if (do_copy)
+ bio_free_pages(bio);
blk_mq_map_bio_put(bio);
+ }
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_rq_map_kern);
--
2.54.0
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