linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kunit: executor: Fix a memory leak on failure in kunit_filter

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Date:   Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:30:20 -0400
From:   Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
To:     David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>
Cc:     Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
        kunit-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev, kernel test robot <yujie.liu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kunit: executor: Fix a memory leak on failure in kunit_filter_tests

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 5:56 AM David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> It's possible that memory allocation for the copy will fail, but for the
> copy of the suite to succeed. In this case, the copy could be leaked.
>
> Properly free 'copy' in the error case for the allocation of 'filtered'
> failing.
>
> Note that there may also have been a similar issue in
> kunit_filter_subsuites, before it was removed in "kunit: flatten
> kunit_suite*** to kunit_suite** in .kunit_test_suites".
>
> This was reported by clang-analyzer via the kernel test robot, here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/c8073b8e-7b9e-0830-4177-87c12f16349c@intel.com/
>
> Fixes: a02353f49162 ("kunit: bail out of test filtering logic quicker if OOM")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>