From: Lynn Liu <liulynn@google.com>
To: joro@8bytes.org, will@kernel.org, robin.murphy@arm.com
Cc: iommu@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Lynn Liu <liulynn@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] iommu/iova: Add NULL check in iova_magazine_free()
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2026 08:06:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260304080636.167426-1-liulynn@google.com> (raw)
When iova_domain_init_rcaches() fails to allocate an iova_magazine
during the initialization of per-cpu rcaches, it jumps to out_err and
calls free_iova_rcaches() for cleanup.
In free_iova_rcaches(), the code iterates through all possible CPUs to
free both cpu_rcache->loaded and cpu_rcache->prev. However, if the
original allocation failed mid-way through the CPU loop, the pointers
for the remaining CPUs remain NULL.
Since kmem_cache_free() does not explicitly handle NULL pointers like
kfree() does, passing these NULL pointers leads to a kernel paging
request fault.
The crash can be observed when fault injection triggers a failure in
iova_magazine_alloc():
pc : _compound_head include/linux/page-flags.h:251 [inline]
pc : virt_to_folio include/linux/mm.h:1395 [inline]
pc : virt_to_slab mm/slab.h:215 [inline]
pc : kmem_cache_free+0x90/0x5c4 mm/slub.c:4769
...
Call trace:
trace_kmem_cache_free include/trace/events/kmem.h:114 [inline]
kmem_cache_free+0x90/0x5c4 mm/slub.c:4768
iova_magazine_free drivers/iommu/iova.c:623 [inline]
free_iova_rcaches+0x114/0x344 drivers/iommu/iova.c:894
iova_domain_init_rcaches drivers/iommu/iova.c:762 [inline]
iova_domain_init_rcaches+0x3d0/0x528 drivers/iommu/iova.c:717
Add a NULL check in iova_magazine_free() to safely handle partially
initialized rcaches in error paths.
Fixes: 84e6f56be9c6 ("iommu/iova: use named kmem_cache for iova magazines")
Signed-off-by: Lynn Liu <liulynn@google.com>
---
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20260214080919.390846-1-liulynn@google.com/T/#u
Changelog in v1 -> v2:
- Update author name to full name.
- Add Fixes tag.
- Include the Call trace from the kernel crash.
drivers/iommu/iova.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iova.c b/drivers/iommu/iova.c
index 18f839721813..e026be5e068b 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iova.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iova.c
@@ -611,7 +611,8 @@ static struct iova_magazine *iova_magazine_alloc(gfp_t flags)
static void iova_magazine_free(struct iova_magazine *mag)
{
- kmem_cache_free(iova_magazine_cache, mag);
+ if (mag)
+ kmem_cache_free(iova_magazine_cache, mag);
}
static void
--
2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-04 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-04 8:06 Lynn Liu [this message]
2026-03-04 18:41 ` [PATCH v2] iommu/iova: Add NULL check in iova_magazine_free() Robin Murphy
2026-03-09 18:41 ` [PATCH v3] " Lynn Liu
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