Re: [PATCH] io_uring: fix page leak in io_sqe_buffer_register()

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Jun 17 2025 - 08:53:15 EST


On 6/17/25 6:39 AM, Penglei Jiang wrote:
> Add missing unpin_user_pages() in the error path
>
> Fixes: d8c2237d0aa9 ("io_uring: add io_pin_pages() helper")
> Signed-off-by: Penglei Jiang <superman.xpt@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> io_uring/rsrc.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/io_uring/rsrc.c b/io_uring/rsrc.c
> index c592ceace97d..f5ac1b530e21 100644
> --- a/io_uring/rsrc.c
> +++ b/io_uring/rsrc.c
> @@ -804,8 +804,10 @@ static struct io_rsrc_node *io_sqe_buffer_register(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
> }
>
> imu = io_alloc_imu(ctx, nr_pages);
> - if (!imu)
> + if (!imu) {
> + unpin_user_pages(pages, nr_pages);
> goto done;
> + }
>
> imu->nr_bvecs = nr_pages;
> ret = io_buffer_account_pin(ctx, pages, nr_pages, imu, last_hpage);

Wouldn't it be better to have the unpin be part of the normal error
handling? Not sure why the pin accounting failure doesn't do that
already.

Totally untested...

diff --git a/io_uring/rsrc.c b/io_uring/rsrc.c
index 94a9db030e0e..a68f0cd677a3 100644
--- a/io_uring/rsrc.c
+++ b/io_uring/rsrc.c
@@ -809,10 +809,8 @@ static struct io_rsrc_node *io_sqe_buffer_register(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,

imu->nr_bvecs = nr_pages;
ret = io_buffer_account_pin(ctx, pages, nr_pages, imu, last_hpage);
- if (ret) {
- unpin_user_pages(pages, nr_pages);
+ if (ret)
goto done;
- }

size = iov->iov_len;
/* store original address for later verification */
@@ -840,6 +838,7 @@ static struct io_rsrc_node *io_sqe_buffer_register(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
}
done:
if (ret) {
+ unpin_user_pages(pages, nr_pages);
if (imu)
io_free_imu(ctx, imu);
io_cache_free(&ctx->node_cache, node);

--
Jens Axboe