From: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
To: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linmq006@gmail.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] s390/mm: Fix memory leak in add_marker() when kvrealloc fails
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:13:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251026091351.36275-1-linmq006@gmail.com> (raw)
When kvrealloc() fails, the original markers memory is leaked
because the function directly assigns the NULL to the markers pointer,
losing the reference to the original memory.
As a result, the kvfree() in pt_dump_init() ends up freeing NULL instead
of the previously allocated memory.
Fix this by using a temporary variable to store kvrealloc()'s return
value and only update the markers 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: d0e7915d2ad3 ("s390/mm/ptdump: Generate address marker array dynamically")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
---
arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c b/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c
index 9af2aae0a515..0f2e0c93a1e0 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/dump_pagetables.c
@@ -291,16 +291,19 @@ static int ptdump_cmp(const void *a, const void *b)
static int add_marker(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, const char *name)
{
+ struct addr_marker *new_markers;
size_t oldsize, newsize;
oldsize = markers_cnt * sizeof(*markers);
newsize = oldsize + 2 * sizeof(*markers);
if (!oldsize)
- markers = kvmalloc(newsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ new_markers = kvmalloc(newsize, GFP_KERNEL);
else
- markers = kvrealloc(markers, newsize, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!markers)
+ new_markers = kvrealloc(markers, newsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!new_markers)
goto error;
+
+ markers = new_markers;
markers[markers_cnt].is_start = 1;
markers[markers_cnt].start_address = start;
markers[markers_cnt].size = end - start;
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
next reply other threads:[~2025-10-26 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-26 9:13 Miaoqian Lin [this message]
2025-10-27 10:14 ` [PATCH] s390/mm: Fix memory leak in add_marker() when kvrealloc fails Heiko Carstens
2025-10-27 11:53 ` 林妙倩
2025-10-27 12:31 ` Heiko Carstens
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