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authorDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>2020-10-15 14:57:35 -0400
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2020-10-16 09:31:09 -0600
commitb2a182a40278bc5849730e66bca01a762188ed86 (patch)
tree7c7973081881b7ccd96703ec83c51e2aa026a5c2 /lib
parenta48faebe65b0db55a73b9220c3d919eee849bb79 (diff)
sgl_alloc_order: fix memory leak
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/scatterlist.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
index 5d63a8857f36..c448642e0f78 100644
--- a/lib/scatterlist.c
+++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ 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;
}