[BUG FIX PATCH COMPILE TESTED ONLY] nvme-fc: release admin tagset if init fails

Chaitanya Kulkarni ckulkarnilinux at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 16:18:42 PST 2025


nvme_fabrics creates an NVMe/FC controller in following path:

    nvmf_dev_write()
      -> nvmf_create_ctrl()
        -> nvme_fc_create_ctrl()
          -> nvme_fc_init_ctrl()

nvme_fc_init_ctrl() allocates the admin blk-mq resources right after
nvme_add_ctrl() succeeds.  If any of the subsequent steps fail (changing
the controller state, scheduling connect work, etc.), we jump to the
fail_ctrl path, which tears down the controller references but never
frees the admin queue/tag set.  The leaked blk-mq allocations match the
kmemleak report seen during blktests nvme/fc.

Check ctrl->ctrl.admin_tagset in the fail_ctrl path and call
nvme_remove_admin_tag_set() when it is set so that all admin queue
allocations are reclaimed whenever controller setup aborts.

Reported-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <ckulkarnilinux at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/fc.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/fc.c b/drivers/nvme/host/fc.c
index bc455fa98246..6948de3f438a 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/fc.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/fc.c
@@ -3587,6 +3587,8 @@ nvme_fc_init_ctrl(struct device *dev, struct nvmf_ctrl_options *opts,
 
 	ctrl->ctrl.opts = NULL;
 
+	if (ctrl->ctrl.admin_tagset)
+		nvme_remove_admin_tag_set(&ctrl->ctrl);
 	/* initiate nvme ctrl ref counting teardown */
 	nvme_uninit_ctrl(&ctrl->ctrl);
 
-- 
2.40.0




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