PCI: vmd: repeated kfree of vmdirq

From: Colin King (gmail)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2025 - 07:48:49 EST


Hi,

Static analysis found an issue in the following commit in linux-next:

commit 2b96beffa42760513567919aa27eb72035f2db58
Author: Nam Cao <namcao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jun 26 16:48:06 2025 +0200

PCI: vmd: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain()


The issue is as follows:

static void vmd_msi_free(struct irq_domain *domain, unsigned int virq, unsigned int nr_irqs)
{
struct vmd_irq *vmdirq = irq_get_chip_data(virq);

for (int i = 0; i < nr_irqs; ++i) {
synchronize_srcu(&vmdirq->irq->srcu);

/* XXX: Potential optimization to rebalance */
scoped_guard(raw_spinlock_irq, &list_lock)
vmdirq->irq->count--;

kfree(vmdirq);
}
}

The for-loop is repeatedly kfree'ing vmdirq which seems incorrect.

Colin

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