linux-kernel - [PATCH V4 3/9] vhost: fix vhost map leak

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Message-Id: <20190807070617.23716-4-jasowang@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed,  7 Aug 2019 03:06:11 -0400
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     mst@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, jgg@...pe.ca,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH V4 3/9] vhost: fix vhost map leak

We don't free map during vhost_map_unprefetch(). This means it could
be leaked. Fixing by free the map.

Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
Fixes: 7f466032dc9e ("vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 17f6abea192e..2a3154976277 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -302,9 +302,7 @@ static void vhost_vq_meta_reset(struct vhost_dev *d)
 static void vhost_map_unprefetch(struct vhost_map *map)
 {
 	kfree(map->pages);
-	map->pages = NULL;
-	map->npages = 0;
-	map->addr = NULL;
+	kfree(map);
 }
 
 static void vhost_uninit_vq_maps(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
-- 
2.18.1