linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 20/41] bsg-lib: dont free job in bsg_prepare

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Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2017 17:32:28 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 20/41] bsg-lib: dont free job in bsg_prepare_job

On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 14:21 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> commit f507b54dccfd8000c517d740bc45f20c74532d18 upstream.
> 
> The job structure is allocated as part of the request, so we should not
> free it in the error path of bsg_prepare_job.

That function doesn't exist here (it was introduced in 4.13).  Instead,
this backport has modified bsg_create_job(), creating a leak.  Please
revert this on the 3.18, 4.4 and 4.9 stable branches.

Ben.

> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> 
> ---
>  block/bsg-lib.c |    1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/block/bsg-lib.c
> +++ b/block/bsg-lib.c
> @@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ static int bsg_create_job(struct device
>  failjob_rls_rqst_payload:
>  	kfree(job->request_payload.sg_list);
>  failjob_rls_job:
> -	kfree(job);
>  	return -ENOMEM;
>  }
>  
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.