[PATCH v2] riscv: kvm: fix vector context allocation leak

Andy Chiu andybnac at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 08:22:21 PDT 2026


Hi Osama,

Thanks for spotting this,

On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 10:16 AM Osama Abdelkader
<osama.abdelkader at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When the second kzalloc (host_context.vector.datap) fails in
> kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context, the first allocation
> (guest_context.vector.datap) is leaked. Free it before returning.
>
> Fixes: 0f4b82579716 ("riscv: KVM: Add vector lazy save/restore support")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader at gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Andy Chiu <andybnac at gmail.com>

> ---
> v2:
> - Add Fixes: tag
> - Add Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c
> index 05f3cc2d8e31..5b6ad82d47be 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c
> @@ -80,8 +80,11 @@ 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);
> +               vcpu->arch.guest_context.vector.datap = NULL;
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> +       }
>
>         return 0;
>  }
> --
> 2.43.0
>



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