On 6/3/24 8:16 PM, Li Zhijian wrote:
> Don't allocate devs again when it's valid pointer which has pionted to
> the memory allocated above with size (count + 2 * sizeof(dev)).
>
> A kmemleak reports:
> unreferenced object 0xffff88800dda1980 (size 16):
> comm "kworker/u10:5", pid 69, jiffies 4294671781
> hex dump (first 16 bytes):
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> backtrace (crc 0):
> [<00000000c5dea560>] __kmalloc+0x32c/0x470
> [<000000009ed43c83>] nd_region_register_namespaces+0x6fb/0x1120
> [libnvdimm]
> [<000000000e07a65c>] nd_region_probe+0xfe/0x210 [libnvdimm]
> [<000000007b79ce5f>] nvdimm_bus_probe+0x7a/0x1e0 [libnvdimm]
> [<00000000a5f3da2e>] really_probe+0xc6/0x390
> [<00000000129e2a69>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x150
> [<000000002dfed28b>] driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
> [<00000000e7048de2>] __device_attach_driver+0x85/0x110
> [<0000000032dca295>] bus_for_each_drv+0x85/0xe0
> [<00000000391c5a7d>] __device_attach+0xbe/0x1e0
> [<0000000026dabec0>] bus_probe_device+0x94/0xb0
> [<00000000c590d936>] device_add+0x656/0x870
> [<000000003d69bfaa>] nd_async_device_register+0xe/0x50 [libnvdimm]
> [<000000003f4c52a4>] async_run_entry_fn+0x2e/0x110
> [<00000000e201f4b0>] process_one_work+0x1ee/0x600
> [<000000006d90d5a9>] worker_thread+0x183/0x350
>
> Fixes: 1b40e09a1232 ("libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation")
> Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhij...@fujitsu.com>
> ---
> drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
> index d6d558f94d6b..56b016dbe307 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c
> @@ -1994,7 +1994,9 @@ static struct device **scan_labels(struct nd_region
> *nd_region)
> /* Publish a zero-sized namespace for userspace to configure. */
> nd_mapping_free_labels(nd_mapping);
>
> - devs = kcalloc(2, sizeof(dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> + /* devs probably has been allocated */
> + if (!devs)
> + devs = kcalloc(2, sizeof(dev), GFP_KERNEL);
This changes the behavior of this code and possibly corrupting the previously
allocated memory at times when 'devs' is valid. Was the 'devs' leaked out from
the previous loop and should be freed instead?
> if (!devs)
> goto err;
>
