Re: [PATCH -next] mtd/ftl: Fix memleak in ftl_add_mtd()

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Thu Aug 18 2022 - 02:59:43 EST


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> Von: "cuigaosheng" <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
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There seems to be a problem with your caps lock key. ;-)

> 在 2022/7/15 15:11, Gaosheng Cui 写道:
>> When add_mtd_blktrans_dev failed, partition's memory will be freed
>> by kfree, but there are some structure members that are allocated
>> for memory independently, such as partition->VirtualBlockMap,
>> partition->EUNInfo, partition->ZferInfo, and partition->bam_cache,
>> so kfree(partition) may cause memory leaks, using ftl_freepart(partition)
>> will fix it.

Is this leak observable via kmemleak or such?
I always thought ->remove_dev() unconditionally do a cleanup later.

>> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
>> Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/mtd/ftl.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ftl.c b/drivers/mtd/ftl.c
>> index f655d2905270..200271bdc7aa 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/ftl.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/ftl.c
>> @@ -1031,6 +1031,7 @@ static void ftl_add_mtd(struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr,
>> struct mtd_info *mtd)
>> partition->mbd.devnum = -1;
>> if (!add_mtd_blktrans_dev(&partition->mbd))
>> return;
>> + ftl_freepart(partition);
>> }
>>
> > kfree(partition);