linux-kernel - [PATCH] lightnvm: fix memory leak when submit fails

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Date:   Wed, 20 Jan 2021 23:22:02 -0800
From:   Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
To:     Matias Bjorling <mb@...htnvm.io>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] lightnvm: fix memory leak when submit fails

The allocated page is not released if error occurs in
nvm_submit_io_sync_raw(). __free_page() is moved ealier to avoid
possible memory leak issue.

Fixes: aff3fb18f957 ("lightnvm: move bad block and chunk state logic to core")
Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
---
 drivers/lightnvm/core.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
index c1bcac71008c..28ddcaa5358b 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
@@ -844,11 +844,10 @@ static int nvm_bb_chunk_sense(struct nvm_dev *dev, struct ppa_addr ppa)
 	rqd.ppa_addr = generic_to_dev_addr(dev, ppa);
 
 	ret = nvm_submit_io_sync_raw(dev, &rqd);
+	__free_page(page);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	__free_page(page);
-
 	return rqd.error;
 }
 
-- 
2.17.1