Re: [PATCH V2] block/bio-integrity: fix mismatched alloc free
From: Ming Lei
Date: Sun Aug 18 2019 - 23:56:30 EST
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 08:59:13AM +0800, Pan Bian wrote:
> The function kmalloc rather than mempool_alloc is called to allocate
> memory when the memory pool is unavailable. However, mempool_alloc is
> used to release the memory chunck in both cases when error occurs. This
> patch fixes the bug.
>
> Fixes: 9f060e2231c ("block: Convert integrity to bvec_alloc_bs()")
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> V2: add Fixes and CC tags
> ---
> block/bio-integrity.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/bio-integrity.c b/block/bio-integrity.c
> index fb95dbb..011dfc8 100644
> --- a/block/bio-integrity.c
> +++ b/block/bio-integrity.c
> @@ -75,7 +75,10 @@ struct bio_integrity_payload *bio_integrity_alloc(struct bio *bio,
>
> return bip;
> err:
> - mempool_free(bip, &bs->bio_integrity_pool);
> + if (!bs || !mempool_initialized(&bs->bio_integrity_pool))
> + kfree(bip);
> + else
> + mempool_free(bip, &bs->bio_integrity_pool);
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_integrity_alloc);
'err' is still reached in case that 'bs' is valid, so fix nothing.
Thanks,
Ming