Re: [PATCH kvmtool] arm64: Fix resource leaks in find_pmu_cpumask()

On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 05:04:13PM +0800, Zongmin Zhou wrote:
> From: Zongmin Zhou <[email protected]>
> 
> Close file descriptors on read_file() failure and close the directory
> stream before returning from the function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zongmin Zhou <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arm64/pmu.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arm64/pmu.c b/arm64/pmu.c
> index 78c15f1..b4d7605 100644
> --- a/arm64/pmu.c
> +++ b/arm64/pmu.c
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static int find_pmu_cpumask(struct kvm *kvm, cpumask_t *cpumask)
>  	unsigned long val;
>  	ssize_t fd_sz;
>  	int fd, ret;
> -	DIR *dir;
> +	DIR *dir = NULL;
>  
>  	memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
>  
> @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ static int find_pmu_cpumask(struct kvm *kvm, cpumask_t *cpumask)
>  		fd_sz = read_file(fd, cpulist, PAGE_SIZE);
>  		if (fd_sz < 0) {
>  			pmu_id = -errno;
> +			close(fd);
>  			goto out_free;
>  		}
>  		close(fd);

Seems a bit grotty to have identical calls to close() on the success and
failure paths.

> @@ -142,6 +143,7 @@ static int find_pmu_cpumask(struct kvm *kvm, cpumask_t *cpumask)
>  		fd_sz = read_file(fd, buf, PMU_ID_MAXLEN - 1);
>  		if (fd_sz < 0) {
>  			pmu_id = -errno;
> +			close(fd);
>  			goto out_free;
>  		}
>  		close(fd);

Same here...

Will