[PATCH] nvmet: fix a memory leak in controller identify

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Fri Jan 24 03:00:33 PST 2025


Simply free an allocated buffer once we copied its content
to the request sgl.

kmemleak complaint:
unreferenced object 0xffff8cd40c388000 (size 4096):
  comm "kworker/2:2H", pid 14739, jiffies 4401313113
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace (crc 0):
    [<ffffffff9e01087a>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0x90
    [<ffffffff9d30324a>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x35a/0x420
    [<ffffffffc180b0e2>] nvmet_execute_identify+0x912/0x9f0 [nvmet]
    [<ffffffffc181a72c>] nvmet_tcp_try_recv_pdu+0x84c/0xc90 [nvmet_tcp]
    [<ffffffffc181ac02>] nvmet_tcp_io_work+0x82/0x8b0 [nvmet_tcp]
    [<ffffffff9cfa7158>] process_one_work+0x178/0x3e0
    [<ffffffff9cfa8e9c>] worker_thread+0x2ec/0x420
    [<ffffffff9cfb2140>] kthread+0xf0/0x120
    [<ffffffff9cee36a4>] ret_from_fork+0x44/0x70
    [<ffffffff9ce7fdda>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Fixes: 84909f7decbd ("nvmet: use kzalloc instead of ZERO_PAGE in
nvme_execute_identify_ns_nvm()")
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi at grimberg.me>
---
 drivers/nvme/target/admin-cmd.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/admin-cmd.c b/drivers/nvme/target/admin-cmd.c
index e670dc185a96..acc138bbf8f2 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/admin-cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/admin-cmd.c
@@ -1068,6 +1068,7 @@ static void nvme_execute_identify_ns_nvm(struct nvmet_req *req)
 		goto out;
 	}
 	status = nvmet_copy_to_sgl(req, 0, id, sizeof(*id));
+	kfree(id);
 out:
 	nvmet_req_complete(req, status);
 }
-- 
2.43.0




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