From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: Michail Tatas <michail.tatas@gmail.com>,
maddy@linux.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, chleroy@kernel.org,
atrajeev@linux.ibm.com, npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/pseries/htmdump: Fix leak in htmdump_init_debugfs
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:24:01 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1pcdmix2.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <anJDq-JckR6j-6EJ@michalis-linux>
Michail Tatas <michail.tatas@gmail.com> writes:
> If any allocation fails during init all previous allocations are
> leaked and the debugfs directory is left.
> Fix by freeing the allocations that have already happened and also
> remove the directory that has been created.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michail Tatas <michail.tatas@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/htmdump.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/htmdump.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/htmdump.c
> index 489a80e87082..f33941b80ada 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/htmdump.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/htmdump.c
> @@ -527,28 +527,28 @@ static int htmdump_init_debugfs(void)
> htm_status_buf = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!htm_status_buf) {
> pr_err("Failed to allocate htmstatus buf\n");
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + goto htm_status_buf_err;
> }
>
> /* Debugfs interface file to present System Processor Configuration */
> htm_info_buf = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!htm_info_buf) {
> pr_err("Failed to allocate htm info buf\n");
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + goto htm_info_buf_err;
> }
>
> /* Debugfs interface file to present HTM capabilities */
> htm_caps_buf = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!htm_caps_buf) {
> pr_err("Failed to allocate htm caps buf\n");
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + goto htm_caps_buf_err;
> }
>
> /* Memory to present HTM system memory configuration */
> htm_mem_buf = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!htm_mem_buf) {
> pr_err("Failed to allocate htm mem buf\n");
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + goto htm_mem_buf_err;
> }
>
> debugfs_create_file("htmstatus", 0400, htmdump_debugfs_dir, htm_status_buf, &htmstatus_fops);
> @@ -557,6 +557,17 @@ static int htmdump_init_debugfs(void)
> debugfs_create_file("htmsystem_mem", 0400, htmdump_debugfs_dir, htm_mem_buf, &htmsystem_mem_fops);
>
> return 0;
> +
> +htm_mem_buf_err:
> + kfree(htm_caps_buf);
> +htm_caps_buf_err:
> + kfree(htm_info_buf);
> +htm_info_buf_err:
> + kfree(htm_status_buf);
> +htm_status_buf_err:
> + debugfs_remove_recursive(htmdump_debugfs_dir);
> + kfree(htm_buf);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> }
So far the only error this function returns is -ENOMEM, so this looks
ok. Later if someone adds a different error return value, then it should
introduce a new ret variable and we should return ret from here.
But as for this patch - this looks good to me. So please feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-05 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-04 19:55 [PATCH] powerpc/pseries/htmdump: Fix leak in htmdump_init_debugfs Michail Tatas
2026-08-05 1:54 ` Ritesh Harjani [this message]
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