[PATCH v2 1/1] cxl/edac: Fix potential memory leak issues

From: Li Ming
Date: Thu Jun 12 2025 - 21:17:28 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>
Tested-by: Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
* Use kfree() instead of __free(kfree). (Jonathan)

base-commit: 87b42c114cdda76c8ad3002f2096699ad5146cb3 cxl/next
---
drivers/cxl/core/edac.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/edac.c b/drivers/cxl/core/edac.c
index 2cbc664e5d62..628786def464 100644
--- a/drivers/cxl/core/edac.c
+++ b/drivers/cxl/core/edac.c
@@ -1099,8 +1099,10 @@ int cxl_store_rec_gen_media(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd, union cxl_event *evt)
old_rec = xa_store(&array_rec->rec_gen_media,
le64_to_cpu(rec->media_hdr.phys_addr), rec,
GFP_KERNEL);
- if (xa_is_err(old_rec))
+ if (xa_is_err(old_rec)) {
+ kfree(rec);
return xa_err(old_rec);
+ }

kfree(old_rec);

@@ -1127,8 +1129,10 @@ int cxl_store_rec_dram(struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd, union cxl_event *evt)
old_rec = xa_store(&array_rec->rec_dram,
le64_to_cpu(rec->media_hdr.phys_addr), rec,
GFP_KERNEL);
- if (xa_is_err(old_rec))
+ if (xa_is_err(old_rec)) {
+ kfree(rec);
return xa_err(old_rec);
+ }

kfree(old_rec);

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