[PATCH] riscv: KVM: Fix memory leak in vector context allocation

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Sun Apr 12 22:44:39 PDT 2026


When the second kzalloc() for host_context vector data fails,
the already-allocated guest_context vector data is not freed,
causing a memory leak. This is triggerable from userspace via:

  ioctl(vm_fd, KVM_CREATE_VCPU)
    → kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu()
      → kvm_arch_vcpu_create()
        → kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context()

Note also that kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu() does not call
kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy() on kvm_arch_vcpu_create() failure:

  kvm_arch_vcpu_create()           ← fails, returns error
      goto vcpu_free_run_page;     ← line 4209

  ...
  arch_vcpu_destroy:               ← SKIPPED
      kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy(vcpu); ← which would call free_vector_context
  vcpu_free_run_page:              ← lands HERE, below arch_vcpu_destroy
      free_page(vcpu->run);
  vcpu_free:
      kmem_cache_free(vcpu);

so kvm_riscv_vcpu_free_vector_context() is never called to
clean up the partial allocation.

Fixes: 0f4b82579716 ("RISC-V: KVM: Add vector lazy save/restore support")
Assisted-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context)
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
---
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c
index 05f3cc2d8e..46fbf48f25 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c
@@ -80,8 +80,10 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	vcpu->arch.host_context.vector.datap = kzalloc(riscv_v_vsize, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!vcpu->arch.host_context.vector.datap)
+	if (!vcpu->arch.host_context.vector.datap) {
+		kfree(vcpu->arch.guest_context.vector.datap);
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.43.0




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