netdev - [PATCH net] rhashtable: fix a memory leak in alloc_bucket

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Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2016 08:51:39 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Subject: [PATCH net] rhashtable: fix a memory leak in alloc_bucket_locks()

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

If vmalloc() was successful, do not attempt a kmalloc_array()

Fixes: 4cf0b354d92e ("rhashtable: avoid large lock-array allocations")
Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
---
 lib/rhashtable.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index 5ba520b544d7..56054e541a0f 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -77,17 +77,18 @@ static int alloc_bucket_locks(struct rhashtable *ht, struct bucket_table *tbl,
 	size = min_t(unsigned int, size, tbl->size >> 1);
 
 	if (sizeof(spinlock_t) != 0) {
+		tbl->locks = NULL;
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 		if (size * sizeof(spinlock_t) > PAGE_SIZE &&
 		    gfp == GFP_KERNEL)
 			tbl->locks = vmalloc(size * sizeof(spinlock_t));
-		else
 #endif
 		if (gfp != GFP_KERNEL)
 			gfp |= __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY;
 
-		tbl->locks = kmalloc_array(size, sizeof(spinlock_t),
-					   gfp);
+		if (!tbl->locks)
+			tbl->locks = kmalloc_array(size, sizeof(spinlock_t),
+						   gfp);
 		if (!tbl->locks)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		for (i = 0; i < size; i++)