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virtio: fix memory leak in virtqueue_add()
authorWei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com>
Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:16:31 +0000 (14:16 +0000)
committerSi-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@oracle.com>
Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:25:13 +0000 (21:25 -0400)
commit815295d16bc43b423f6fd83419a3af79e2562ac6
tree7925e8af7dc1bdeb73221f66ef8ada7298ad2b3b
parent19e3df7066d14a77c3d1f5fb6e9fdd42fe7d04a5
virtio: fix memory leak in virtqueue_add()

Orabug: 26813294

When using the indirect buffers feature, 'desc' is allocated in
virtqueue_add() but isn't freed before leaving on a ring full error,
causing a memory leak.

For example, it seems rather clear that this can trigger
with virtio net if mergeable buffers are not used.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 58625edf9e2515ed41dac2a24fa8004030a87b87)
Signed-off-by: Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c