[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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