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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/6] lib/scatterlist: Do not leak pages when high-order allocation fails
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On Wed, 2018-09-26 at 15:16 +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
>
> If a higher-order allocation fails, the existing abort and cleanup path
> would consider all segments allocated so far as 0-order page allocations
> and would therefore leak memory.
>
> Fix this by cleaning up using sgl_free_n_order which allows the correct
> page order to be passed in.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> ---
> lib/scatterlist.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
> index 3cc01cd82242..0caed79d7291 100644
> --- a/lib/scatterlist.c
> +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
> @@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ struct scatterlist *sgl_alloc_order(unsigned long length, unsigned int order,
> {
> struct scatterlist *sgl, *sg;
> struct page *page;
> - unsigned int nent, nalloc;
> + unsigned int nent, nalloc, i;
> u32 elem_len;
>
> nent = round_up(length, PAGE_SIZE << order) >> (PAGE_SHIFT + order);
> @@ -501,17 +501,19 @@ struct scatterlist *sgl_alloc_order(unsigned long length, unsigned int order,
>
> sg_init_table(sgl, nalloc);
> sg = sgl;
> + i = 0;
> while (length) {
> elem_len = min_t(u64, length, PAGE_SIZE << order);
> page = alloc_pages(gfp, order);
> if (!page) {
> - sgl_free(sgl);
> + sgl_free_n_order(sgl, i, order);
> return NULL;
> }
>
> sg_set_page(sg, page, elem_len, 0);
> length -= elem_len;
> sg = sg_next(sg);
> + i++;
> }
> WARN_ONCE(length, "length = %ld\n", length);
> if (nent_p)

sg_init_table() clears all page pointers and sgl_free_n_order() can handle
elements of which the page pointer is zero. So I think if
sgl_free_n_order(sgl, i, order) would be changed into sgl_free_n_order(sgl,
UINT_MAX, order) that the variable 'i' can be left out.

Bart.

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