[PATCH] nvme-core: Fixing ctrl de-referencing in nvme_init_ctrl

Irvin Cote irvincoteg at gmail.com
Sun Apr 2 17:41:28 PDT 2023


Correcting the de-reference count for
the controller in the core layer to avoid
a memory leak. Also cleaning a bit the
teardown logic of nvme_init_ctrl. 

Signed-off-by: Irvin Cote <irvincoteg at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index 8698410aeb84..3d7aca7d0f2a 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -5137,14 +5137,12 @@ int nvme_init_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct device *dev,
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(NVME_DSM_MAX_RANGES * sizeof(struct nvme_dsm_range) >
 			PAGE_SIZE);
 	ctrl->discard_page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!ctrl->discard_page) {
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out;
-	}
+	if (!ctrl->discard_page)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	ret = ida_alloc(&nvme_instance_ida, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (ret < 0)
-		goto out;
+		goto out_free_page;
 	ctrl->instance = ret;
 
 	device_initialize(&ctrl->ctrl_device);
@@ -5191,10 +5189,10 @@ int nvme_init_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct device *dev,
 	nvme_put_ctrl(ctrl);
 	kfree_const(ctrl->device->kobj.name);
 out_release_instance:
+	nvme_put_ctrl(ctrl);
 	ida_free(&nvme_instance_ida, ctrl->instance);
-out:
-	if (ctrl->discard_page)
-		__free_page(ctrl->discard_page);
+out_free_page:
+	__free_page(ctrl->discard_page);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvme_init_ctrl);
-- 
2.37.2




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