From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: io-uring <io-uring@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] io_uring/kbuf: fix memory leak if io_buffer_add_list fails
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 08:43:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f658484-0a25-49a1-ae27-d2ffa0f3132f@kernel.dk> (raw)
io_register_pbuf_ring() ignores the return value of io_buffer_add_list(),
which can fail if xa_store() returns an error (e.g., -ENOMEM). When this
happens, the function returns 0 (success) to the caller, but the
io_buffer_list structure is neither added to the xarray nor freed.
In practice this requires failure injection to hit, hence not a real
issue. But it should get fixed up none the less.
Fixes: ef62de3c4ad5 ("io_uring/kbuf: use region api for pbuf rings")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
---
diff --git a/io_uring/kbuf.c b/io_uring/kbuf.c
index 796d131107dd..67d4fe576473 100644
--- a/io_uring/kbuf.c
+++ b/io_uring/kbuf.c
@@ -669,8 +669,9 @@ int io_register_pbuf_ring(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, void __user *arg)
bl->buf_ring = br;
if (reg.flags & IOU_PBUF_RING_INC)
bl->flags |= IOBL_INC;
- io_buffer_add_list(ctx, bl, reg.bgid);
- return 0;
+ ret = io_buffer_add_list(ctx, bl, reg.bgid);
+ if (!ret)
+ return 0;
fail:
io_free_region(ctx->user, &bl->region);
kfree(bl);
--
Jens Axboe
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-05 15:43 UTC|newest]
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2026-02-05 15:43 Jens Axboe [this message]
2026-02-05 18:11 ` [PATCH] io_uring/kbuf: fix memory leak if io_buffer_add_list fails Pavel Begunkov
2026-02-05 18:13 ` Jens Axboe
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