[rds-devel] [External] : Re: [PATCH net v2] RDS: Fix memory leak in rds_rdma_extra_size()

[Allison Henderson]

On Mon, 2026-04-13 at 15:00 +0800, Xiaobo Liu wrote:
> Free iov->iov when copy_from_user() or page count validation fails
> in rds_rdma_extra_size().
> 
> This preserves the existing success path and avoids leaking the
> allocated iovec array on error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaobo Liu <cppcoffee at gmail.com>

I think this looks good now.  Thanks Xiaobo.
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <achender at kernel.org>

> ---
>  net/rds/rdma.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/rds/rdma.c b/net/rds/rdma.c
> index aa6465dc7..91a20c1e2 100644
> --- a/net/rds/rdma.c
> +++ b/net/rds/rdma.c
> @@ -560,6 +560,7 @@ int rds_rdma_extra_size(struct rds_rdma_args *args,
>  	struct rds_iovec *vec;
>  	struct rds_iovec __user *local_vec;
>  	int tot_pages = 0;
> +	int ret = 0;
>  	unsigned int nr_pages;
>  	unsigned int i;
>  
> @@ -578,16 +579,20 @@ int rds_rdma_extra_size(struct rds_rdma_args *args,
>  	vec = &iov->iov[0];
>  
>  	if (copy_from_user(vec, local_vec, args->nr_local *
> -			   sizeof(struct rds_iovec)))
> -		return -EFAULT;
> +			   sizeof(struct rds_iovec))) {
> +		ret = -EFAULT;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
>  	iov->len = args->nr_local;
>  
>  	/* figure out the number of pages in the vector */
>  	for (i = 0; i < args->nr_local; i++, vec++) {
>  
>  		nr_pages = rds_pages_in_vec(vec);
> -		if (nr_pages == 0)
> -			return -EINVAL;
> +		if (nr_pages == 0) {
> +			ret = -EINVAL;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
>  
>  		tot_pages += nr_pages;
>  
> @@ -595,11 +600,20 @@ int rds_rdma_extra_size(struct rds_rdma_args *args,
>  		 * nr_pages for one entry is limited to (UINT_MAX>>PAGE_SHIFT)+1,
>  		 * so tot_pages cannot overflow without first going negative.
>  		 */
> -		if (tot_pages < 0)
> -			return -EINVAL;
> +		if (tot_pages < 0) {
> +			ret = -EINVAL;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
>  	}
>  
> -	return tot_pages * sizeof(struct scatterlist);
> +	ret = tot_pages * sizeof(struct scatterlist);
> +
> +out:
> +	if (ret < 0) {
> +		kfree(iov->iov);
> +		iov->iov = NULL;
> +	}
> +	return ret;
>  }
>  
>  /*