Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: s390: memory leak in guest debug handling
Matthew Rosato <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 10:52:12 -0400
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.kvm,org.kernel.vger.linux-s390 |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 8/4/26 8:06 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> bp_data is freed only for the error case by kfree(bp_data).
> Every successful KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG will leak bp_data.
>
> Fixes: 27291e2165b6 ("KVM: s390: hardware support for guest debugging")
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Maybe worth re-visiting for potential __free() usage as a follow on and
replace the goto logic.
But as a fix this LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <[email protected]>
> ---
> arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c b/arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c
> index 69835e1d4f20..4c02dbebb2eb 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/guestdbg.c
> @@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ int kvm_s390_import_bp_data(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> vcpu->arch.guestdbg.hw_bp_info = bp_info;
> vcpu->arch.guestdbg.nr_hw_wp = nr_wp;
> vcpu->arch.guestdbg.hw_wp_info = wp_info;
> + kfree(bp_data);
> return 0;
> error:
> kfree(bp_data);