linux-kernel - [PATCH] scsi: hpsa: Fix potential memory leak in hpsa_big_passthru

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Message-ID: <20250904094130.276350-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Date: Thu,  4 Sep 2025 11:41:31 +0200
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
To: Don Brace <don.brace@...rochip.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>,
	Mike Miller <mikem@...rdog.cce.hp.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	storagedev@...rochip.com,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: hpsa: Fix potential memory leak in hpsa_big_passthru_ioctl()

Replace kmalloc() followed by copy_from_user() with memdup_user() to fix
a memory leak that occurs when copy_from_user(buff[sg_used],,) fails and
the 'cleanup1:' path does not free the memory for 'buff[sg_used]'. Using
memdup_user() avoids this by freeing the memory internally.

Since memdup_user() already allocates memory, use kzalloc() in the else
branch instead of manually zeroing 'buff[sg_used]' using memset(0).

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: edd163687ea5 ("[SCSI] hpsa: add driver for HP Smart Array controllers.")
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
---
 drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
index c73a71ac3c29..1c6161d0b85c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
@@ -6522,18 +6522,21 @@ static int hpsa_big_passthru_ioctl(struct ctlr_info *h,
 	while (left) {
 		sz = (left > ioc->malloc_size) ? ioc->malloc_size : left;
 		buff_size[sg_used] = sz;
-		buff[sg_used] = kmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (buff[sg_used] == NULL) {
-			status = -ENOMEM;
-			goto cleanup1;
-		}
+
 		if (ioc->Request.Type.Direction & XFER_WRITE) {
-			if (copy_from_user(buff[sg_used], data_ptr, sz)) {
-				status = -EFAULT;
+			buff[sg_used] = memdup_user(data_ptr, sz);
+			if (IS_ERR(buff[sg_used])) {
+				status = PTR_ERR(buff[sg_used]);
 				goto cleanup1;
 			}
-		} else
-			memset(buff[sg_used], 0, sz);
+		} else {
+			buff[sg_used] = kzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!buff[sg_used]) {
+				status = -ENOMEM;
+				goto cleanup1;
+			}
+		}
+
 		left -= sz;
 		data_ptr += sz;
 		sg_used++;
-- 
2.51.0