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authorWenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu>2019-07-11 14:22:02 -0500
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2019-07-11 20:01:21 -0600
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block/bio-integrity: fix a memory leak bug
In bio_integrity_prep(), a kernel buffer is allocated through kmalloc() to hold integrity metadata. Later on, the buffer will be attached to the bio structure through bio_integrity_add_page(), which returns the number of bytes of integrity metadata attached. Due to unexpected situations, bio_integrity_add_page() may return 0. As a result, bio_integrity_prep() needs to be terminated with 'false' returned to indicate this error. However, the allocated kernel buffer is not freed on this execution path, leading to a memory leak. To fix this issue, free the allocated buffer before returning from bio_integrity_prep(). Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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