netdev - Re: [PATCH net] rhashtable: fix a memory leak in alloc_bucket

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Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2016 18:18:41 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rhashtable: fix a memory leak in alloc_bucket_locks()

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> If vmalloc() was successful, do not attempt a kmalloc_array()
> 
> Fixes: 4cf0b354d92e ("rhashtable: avoid large lock-array allocations")
> Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
> ---
>  lib/rhashtable.c |    7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
> index 5ba520b544d7..56054e541a0f 100644
> --- a/lib/rhashtable.c
> +++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
> @@ -77,17 +77,18 @@ static int alloc_bucket_locks(struct rhashtable *ht, struct bucket_table *tbl,
>  	size = min_t(unsigned int, size, tbl->size >> 1);
>  
>  	if (sizeof(spinlock_t) != 0) {
> +		tbl->locks = NULL;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
>  		if (size * sizeof(spinlock_t) > PAGE_SIZE &&
>  		    gfp == GFP_KERNEL)
>  			tbl->locks = vmalloc(size * sizeof(spinlock_t));
> -		else
>  #endif

Argh.

Thanks Eric for fixing this :-/