[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 045/183] KVM: s390: avoid memory leaks if __inject_vm() fails
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Mar 6 09:55:36 UTC 2015
3.16.7-ckt8 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: David Hildenbrand <dahi at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
commit 428d53be5e7468769d4e7899cca06ed5f783a6e1 upstream.
We have to delete the allocated interrupt info if __inject_vm() fails.
Otherwise user space can keep flooding kvm with floating interrupts and
provoke more and more memory leaks.
Reported-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c b/arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c
index db3625ae7a47..e2354f97264e 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c
@@ -951,6 +951,7 @@ int kvm_s390_inject_vm(struct kvm *kvm,
struct kvm_s390_interrupt *s390int)
{
struct kvm_s390_interrupt_info *inti;
+ int rc;
inti = kzalloc(sizeof(*inti), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!inti)
@@ -998,7 +999,10 @@ int kvm_s390_inject_vm(struct kvm *kvm,
trace_kvm_s390_inject_vm(s390int->type, s390int->parm, s390int->parm64,
2);
- return __inject_vm(kvm, inti);
+ rc = __inject_vm(kvm, inti);
+ if (rc)
+ kfree(inti);
+ return rc;
}
void kvm_s390_reinject_io_int(struct kvm *kvm,
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