[lvc-project] [PATCH 6.12 1/2] block: fix memory leak in in bio_map_user_iov()
Dmitry Antipov
dmantipov at yandex.ru
Fri May 15 16:53:57 MSK 2026
Local fuzzing has observed the following issue with 6.12.82, and it
was manually reproduced up to 6.12.88 as well:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810c568000 (size 2048):
comm "syz.2.17", pid 1369, jiffies 4294894662
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
a8 62 6f 15 80 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .bo.............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 43ffe8f):
kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4331 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_noprof+0x428/0x510 mm/slub.c:4338
__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0xb5/0x240 mm/util.c:658
kvmalloc_array_node_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1040 [inline]
want_pages_array lib/iov_iter.c:992 [inline]
iov_iter_extract_user_pages lib/iov_iter.c:1818 [inline]
iov_iter_extract_pages+0x51b/0x14d0 lib/iov_iter.c:1884
bio_map_user_iov+0x325/0xa50 block/blk-map.c:304
blk_rq_map_user_iov+0x248/0x790 block/blk-map.c:646
blk_rq_map_user+0x123/0x190 block/blk-map.c:673
scsi_bsg_sg_io_fn+0x8d4/0xb00 drivers/scsi/scsi_bsg.c:53
bsg_sg_io+0x1b7/0x2b0 block/bsg.c:67
bsg_ioctl+0x3a4/0x5b0 block/bsg.c:151
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:893 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x194/0x220 fs/ioctl.c:893
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x90/0x170 arch/x86/entry/common.c:78
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Since 'iov_iter_extract_pages()' may allocate new array of pages
even when it returns non-zero error value, this array must be
freed when handling error returned from that function.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov at yandex.ru>
---
block/blk-map.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/blk-map.c b/block/blk-map.c
index b5fd1d857461..8523646054f0 100644
--- a/block/blk-map.c
+++ b/block/blk-map.c
@@ -305,6 +305,8 @@ static int bio_map_user_iov(struct request *rq, struct iov_iter *iter,
nr_vecs, extraction_flags, &offs);
if (unlikely(bytes <= 0)) {
ret = bytes ? bytes : -EFAULT;
+ if (pages != stack_pages)
+ kvfree(pages);
goto out_unmap;
}
--
2.54.0
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