[PATCH 1/1] cxl/edac: Fix potential memory leak issues

From: Li Ming
Date: Tue Jun 10 2025 - 23:37:52 EST


In cxl_store_rec_gen_media() and cxl_store_rec_dram(), use kmemdup() to
duplicate a cxl gen_media/dram event to store the event in a xarray by
xa_store(). The cxl gen_media/dram event allocated by kmemdup() should
be freed in the case that the xa_store() fails.

Fixes: 0b5ccb0de1e2 ("cxl/edac: Support for finding memory operation attributes from the current boot")
Signed-off-by: Li Ming <ming.li@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
base-commit: 87b42c114cdda76c8ad3002f2096699ad5146cb3 cxl/fixes
---
drivers/cxl/core/edac.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/edac.c b/drivers/cxl/core/edac.c
index 2cbc664e5d62..b4c5c23a45d4 100644
--- a/drivers/cxl/core/edac.c
+++ b/drivers/cxl/core/edac.c
@@ -1086,13 +1086,13 @@ static void cxl_del_overflow_old_recs(struct xarray *rec_xarray)
int cxl_store_rec_gen_media(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd, union cxl_event *evt)
{
struct cxl_mem_err_rec *array_rec = cxlmd->err_rec_array;
- struct cxl_event_gen_media *rec;
void *old_rec;

if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CXL_EDAC_MEM_REPAIR) || !array_rec)
return 0;

- rec = kmemdup(&evt->gen_media, sizeof(*rec), GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct cxl_event_gen_media *rec __free(kfree) =
+ kmemdup(&evt->gen_media, sizeof(*rec), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rec)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -1106,6 +1106,7 @@ int cxl_store_rec_gen_media(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd, union cxl_event *evt)

cxl_del_expired_gmedia_recs(&array_rec->rec_gen_media, rec);
cxl_del_overflow_old_recs(&array_rec->rec_gen_media);
+ retain_and_null_ptr(rec);

return 0;
}
@@ -1114,13 +1115,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(cxl_store_rec_gen_media, "CXL");
int cxl_store_rec_dram(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd, union cxl_event *evt)
{
struct cxl_mem_err_rec *array_rec = cxlmd->err_rec_array;
- struct cxl_event_dram *rec;
void *old_rec;

if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CXL_EDAC_MEM_REPAIR) || !array_rec)
return 0;

- rec = kmemdup(&evt->dram, sizeof(*rec), GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct cxl_event_dram *rec __free(kfree) =
+ kmemdup(&evt->dram, sizeof(*rec), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rec)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -1134,6 +1135,7 @@ int cxl_store_rec_dram(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd, union cxl_event *evt)

cxl_del_expired_dram_recs(&array_rec->rec_dram, rec);
cxl_del_overflow_old_recs(&array_rec->rec_dram);
+ retain_and_null_ptr(rec);

return 0;
}
--
2.34.1