[PATCH] ACPI/IORT: Fix memory leak in iort_rmr_alloc_sids()
Hanjun Guo
guohanjun at huawei.com
Mon Sep 1 05:10:11 PDT 2025
+Cc Catalin, Will
On 2025/8/28 19:22, Miaoqian Lin wrote:
> If krealloc_array() fails in iort_rmr_alloc_sids(), the function returns
> NULL but does not free the original 'sids' allocation. This results in a
> memory leak since the caller overwrites the original pointer with the
> NULL return value.
>
> Fixes: 491cf4a6735a ("ACPI/IORT: Add support to retrieve IORT RMR reserved regions")
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006 at gmail.com>
> ---
> This follows the same pattern as the fix in commit 06615967d488
> ("bpf, verifier: Fix memory leak in array reallocation for stack state").
> ---
> drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c b/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c
> index 98759d6199d3..65f0f56ad753 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c
> @@ -937,8 +937,10 @@ static u32 *iort_rmr_alloc_sids(u32 *sids, u32 count, u32 id_start,
>
> new_sids = krealloc_array(sids, count + new_count,
> sizeof(*new_sids), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!new_sids)
> + if (!new_sids) {
> + kfree(sids);
> return NULL;
> + }
>
> for (i = count; i < total_count; i++)
> new_sids[i] = id_start++;
Good catch!
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun at huawei.com>
Thanks
Hanjun
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