[PATCH] riscv: fix memory leakage in process_accumulated_relocations

zhangkai at iscas.ac.cn zhangkai at iscas.ac.cn
Sat Nov 16 02:42:58 PST 2024


When module relocation is done, process_accumulated_relocations()
frees all dynamic allocated memory. rel_head_iter->rel_entry is
missed to free that kmemleak might report:

unreferenced object 0xffffffd880c5fc40 (size 16):
  comm "insmod", pid 1101, jiffies 4295045138
  hex dump (first 16 bytes):
    e0 c0 f5 87 d8 ff ff ff 60 c5 f5 87 d8 ff ff ff  ........`.......
  backtrace (crc d2ecb20c):
    [<00000000b01655f6>] kmalloc_trace_noprof+0x268/0x2f6
    [<000000006dc0067a>] add_relocation_to_accumulate.constprop.0+0xf2/0x1aa
    [<00000000e1b29a36>] apply_relocate_add+0x13c/0x36e
    [<000000007543f1fb>] load_module+0x5c6/0x83e
    [<00000000abce12e8>] init_module_from_file+0x74/0xaa
    [<0000000049413e3d>] idempotent_init_module+0x116/0x22e
    [<00000000f9b98b85>] __riscv_sys_finit_module+0x62/0xae

Signed-off-by: Kai Zhang <zhangkai at iscas.ac.cn>
---
 arch/riscv/kernel/module.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/module.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/module.c
index 1cd461f3d87..f8c3c4b47dc 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/module.c
@@ -643,6 +643,7 @@ process_accumulated_relocations(struct module *me,
                        }
                        reloc_handlers[curr_type].accumulate_handler(
                                me, location, buffer);
+                       kfree(rel_head_iter->rel_entry);
                        kfree(rel_head_iter);
                }
                kfree(bucket_iter);
-- 
2.39.5

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