[PATCH v2 1/2] PCI/AER: Fix memory leak in aer_recover_queue() on kfifo buffer overflow

Priyank Rathod <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:59:38 +0000
Newsgroups org.ozlabs.lists.linuxppc-dev,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-pci
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When ACPI APEI/GHES processes PCIe AER error records, it allocates memory
for aer_capability_regs (aer_regs) from ghes_estatus_pool and passes it
to aer_recover_queue() to be enqueued into aer_recover_ring.

If kfifo_in_spinlocked() fails due to a buffer overflow,
aer_recover_queue() logged an error message but returned without freeing
aer_regs. Because the entry was rejected and never inserted into the
queue, aer_recover_work_func() could never dequeue or free it, leaking
the allocated ghes_estatus_pool memory.

Free aer_regs via ghes_estatus_pool_region_free() when
kfifo_in_spinlocked() fails on buffer overflow.

Signed-off-by: Priyank Rathod <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
index c4fd9c0b2a54..967cde9dd519 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
@@ -1274,9 +1274,12 @@ void aer_recover_queue(int domain, unsigned int bus, unsigned int devfn,
 	if (kfifo_in_spinlocked(&aer_recover_ring, &entry, 1,
 				 &aer_recover_ring_lock))
 		schedule_work(&aer_recover_work);
-	else
+	else {
 		pr_err("buffer overflow in recovery for %04x:%02x:%02x.%x\n",
 		       domain, bus, PCI_SLOT(devfn), PCI_FUNC(devfn));
+		ghes_estatus_pool_region_free((unsigned long)aer_regs,
+					    sizeof(struct aer_capability_regs));
+	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(aer_recover_queue);
 #endif

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