From: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
To: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>,
Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>,
Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linmq006@gmail.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] riscv: Fix memory leak in module_frob_arch_sections()
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:19:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251026091912.39727-1-linmq006@gmail.com> (raw)
The current code directly overwrites the scratch pointer with the
return value of kvrealloc(). If kvrealloc() fails and returns NULL,
the original buffer becomes unreachable, causing a memory leak.
Fix this by using a temporary variable to store kvrealloc()'s return
value and only update the scratch pointer on success.
Found via static anlaysis and this is similar to commit 42378a9ca553
("bpf, verifier: Fix memory leak in array reallocation for stack state")
Fixes: be17c0df6795 ("riscv: module: Optimize PLT/GOT entry counting")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
---
arch/riscv/kernel/module-sections.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/module-sections.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/module-sections.c
index 75551ac6504c..1675cbad8619 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/module-sections.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/module-sections.c
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ int module_frob_arch_sections(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
unsigned int num_plts = 0;
unsigned int num_gots = 0;
Elf_Rela *scratch = NULL;
+ Elf_Rela *new_scratch;
size_t scratch_size = 0;
int i;
@@ -168,9 +169,12 @@ int module_frob_arch_sections(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
scratch_size_needed = (num_scratch_relas + num_relas) * sizeof(*scratch);
if (scratch_size_needed > scratch_size) {
scratch_size = scratch_size_needed;
- scratch = kvrealloc(scratch, scratch_size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!scratch)
+ new_scratch = kvrealloc(scratch, scratch_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!new_scratch) {
+ kvfree(scratch);
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ scratch = new_scratch;
}
for (size_t j = 0; j < num_relas; j++)
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
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