From: syzbot <syzbot+d60be66dd00b4490fa96@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
To: kartikey406@gmail.com
Cc: kartikey406@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] RDMA/uverbs: Free all radix tree nodes in uverbs_destroy_api()
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2026 06:24:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6af9c0ba.920b2b3a.148c65.0027.GAE@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261115142448.21160-1-kartikey406@gmail.com>
> #syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
Patch testing via #syz test is temporarily disabled.
See https://github.com/google/syzkaller/issues/8122 for details.
>
>
> syzbot reported a memory leak of radix_tree_node objects allocated
> while registering a siw device:
>
> radix_tree_node_alloc+0x81/0x1a0 lib/radix-tree.c:276
> radix_tree_insert+0x140/0x390 lib/radix-tree.c:712
> uapi_add_elm+0x61/0x140 uverbs_uapi.c:41
> uverbs_alloc_api+0x85/0xc50 uverbs_uapi.c:659
> siw_newlink+0x36a/0x3f0 siw_main.c:433
>
> radix_tree_insert() can fail with -ENOMEM after it has already linked
> intermediate nodes into the tree, leaving them with no entries.
> uverbs_destroy_api() only removes populated slots through
> uapi_remove_range(), and radix tree nodes are freed only as a side
> effect of deleting an entry, so these empty nodes are leaked when the
> uapi is destroyed.
>
> Call xa_destroy() after removing the entries so that all remaining
> nodes are freed.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+d60be66dd00b4490fa96@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d60be66dd00b4490fa96
> Fixes: 9ed3e5f44772 ("IB/uverbs: Build the specs into a radix tree at runtime")
> Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Drop the dummy insert/delete workaround in uapi_add_elm()
> - Call xa_destroy() in uverbs_destroy_api() to free all remaining
> nodes, as suggested by Jason
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
> index b67db3790f03..77a4eb494936 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
> @@ -621,6 +621,7 @@ void uverbs_destroy_api(struct uverbs_api *uapi)
> return;
>
> uapi_remove_range(uapi, 0, U32_MAX);
> + xa_destroy(&uapi->radix);
> kfree(uapi->write_methods);
> kfree(uapi);
> }
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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2026-11-15 14:24 ` syzbot [this message]
2026-11-15 14:29 [PATCH v2] RDMA/uverbs: Free all radix tree nodes in uverbs_destroy_api() Deepanshu Kartikey
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2026-11-15 14:24 ` syzbot
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