Re: [PATCH][next] vfio/mdpy: Fix memory leak of object mdev_state->vconfig

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 07:37:10PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> In the case where the call to vfio_register_group_dev fails the error
> return path kfree's mdev_state but not mdev_state->vconfig. Fix this
> by kfree'ing mdev_state->vconfig before returning.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak")
> Fixes: 437e41368c01 ("vfio/mdpy: Convert to use vfio_register_group_dev()")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>  samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c b/samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c
> index 7e9c9df0f05b..393c9df6f6a0 100644
> +++ b/samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c
> @@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ static int mdpy_probe(struct mdev_device *mdev)
>  
>  	ret = vfio_register_group_dev(&mdev_state->vdev);
>  	if (ret) {
> +		kfree(mdev_state->vconfig);
>  		kfree(mdev_state);
>  		return ret;
>  	}

Thanks Colin, looks right

Alex, this is in your hch-mdev-direct-v4 branch can you squash or
whatever?

Though if we are touching this I prefer the below:

diff --git a/samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c b/samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c
index 7e9c9df0f05bac..868a0e7fa90e98 100644
--- a/samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c
+++ b/samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c
@@ -235,17 +235,16 @@ static int mdpy_probe(struct mdev_device *mdev)
 
 	mdev_state->vconfig = kzalloc(MDPY_CONFIG_SPACE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (mdev_state->vconfig == NULL) {
-		kfree(mdev_state);
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_state;
 	}
 
 	fbsize = roundup_pow_of_two(type->width * type->height * type->bytepp);
 
 	mdev_state->memblk = vmalloc_user(fbsize);
 	if (!mdev_state->memblk) {
-		kfree(mdev_state->vconfig);
-		kfree(mdev_state);
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_vconfig;
 	}
 	dev_info(dev, "%s: %s (%dx%d)\n", __func__, type->name, type->width,
 		 type->height);
@@ -260,12 +259,17 @@ static int mdpy_probe(struct mdev_device *mdev)
 	mdpy_count++;
 
 	ret = vfio_register_group_dev(&mdev_state->vdev);
-	if (ret) {
-		kfree(mdev_state);
-		return ret;
-	}
+	if (ret)
+		goto err_vconfig;
+
 	dev_set_drvdata(&mdev->dev, mdev_state);
 	return 0;
+
+err_vconfig:
+	kfree(mdev_state->vconfig);
+err_state:
+	kfree(mdev_state);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static void mdpy_remove(struct mdev_device *mdev)