Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 45/46] sgl_alloc_order: fix memory leak | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2020 20:09:44 -0400 |
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From: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
[ Upstream commit b2a182a40278bc5849730e66bca01a762188ed86 ]
sgl_alloc_order() can fail when 'length' is large on a memory constrained system. When order > 0 it will potentially be making several multi-page allocations with the later ones more likely to fail than the earlier one. So it is important that sgl_alloc_order() frees up any pages it has obtained before returning NULL. In the case when order > 0 it calls the wrong free page function and leaks. In testing the leak was sufficient to bring down my 8 GiB laptop with OOM.
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> --- lib/scatterlist.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c index 834c846c5af84..2cf02a82d502b 100644 --- a/lib/scatterlist.c +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ struct scatterlist *sgl_alloc_order(unsigned long long length, elem_len = min_t(u64, length, PAGE_SIZE << order); page = alloc_pages(gfp, order); if (!page) { - sgl_free(sgl); + sgl_free_order(sgl, order); return NULL; } -- 2.25.1
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