linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] nvme: pci: pass IRQF_RESCURE_THREAD to request_threaded

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Message-ID: <20190827090926.GA30871@ming.t460p>
Date:   Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:09:27 +0800
From:   Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
To:     Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Long Li <longli@...rosoft.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] nvme: pci: pass IRQF_RESCURE_THREAD to
 request_threaded_irq

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:06:20AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On 27/08/2019 10:53, Ming Lei wrote:
> [...]
> > +		char *devname;
> > +		const struct cpumask *mask;
> > +		unsigned long irqflags = IRQF_SHARED;
> > +		int vector = pci_irq_vector(pdev, nvmeq->cq_vector);
> > +
> > +		devname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "nvme%dq%d", nr, nvmeq->qid);
> > +		if (!devname)
> > +			return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +		mask = pci_irq_get_affinity(pdev, nvmeq->cq_vector);
> > +		if (mask && cpumask_weight(mask) > 1)
> > +			irqflags |= IRQF_RESCUE_THREAD;
> > +
> > +		return request_threaded_irq(vector, nvme_irq, NULL, irqflags,
> > +				devname, nvmeq);
> 
> This will leak 'devname' which gets allocated by kasprintf() a few lines
> above.

It won't, please see pci_free_irq() in which free_irq() returns the
'devname' passed in.

Thanks,
Ming