[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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