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authorJackie Liu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>2026-07-15 15:35:18 +0800
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2026-07-16 06:08:14 -0600
commitbd2df8dc72201f626d66ca97f2afc8b7f2740713 (patch)
tree16d16b395707365871aa4454b9ee0dfede929c50
parentdaff723f2d4c618d5f9186a990f47bf75878abeb (diff)
block: free copied pages when blk_rq_map_kern() fails
bio_copy_kern() allocates pages that are normally freed by the bio completion callback. If blk_rq_append_bio() rejects the bio, however, blk_rq_map_kern() only drops the bio reference. Since bio_put() does not free pages referenced by the bio vectors, those pages leak. This can happen when the bio exceeds the queue segment constraints or when a later mapping cannot be merged into a request built by earlier calls. Track whether the buffer was copied and free those pages before dropping the rejected bio. Fixes: 3a5a39276d2a ("block: allow blk_rq_map_kern to append to requests") Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol Signed-off-by: Jackie Liu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260715073518.96042-1-liu.yun@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
-rw-r--r--block/blk-map.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-map.c b/block/blk-map.c
index 768549f19f97..d1d6bbe0ecf1 100644
--- a/block/blk-map.c
+++ b/block/blk-map.c
@@ -653,6 +653,7 @@ int blk_rq_map_kern(struct request *rq, void *kbuf, unsigned int len,
gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
unsigned long addr = (unsigned long) kbuf;
+ bool do_copy;
struct bio *bio;
int ret;
@@ -661,7 +662,8 @@ int blk_rq_map_kern(struct request *rq, void *kbuf, unsigned int len,
if (!len || !kbuf)
return -EINVAL;
- if (!blk_rq_aligned(rq->q, addr, len) || object_is_on_stack(kbuf))
+ do_copy = !blk_rq_aligned(rq->q, addr, len) || object_is_on_stack(kbuf);
+ if (do_copy)
bio = bio_copy_kern(rq, kbuf, len, gfp_mask);
else
bio = bio_map_kern(rq, kbuf, len, gfp_mask);
@@ -670,8 +672,11 @@ int blk_rq_map_kern(struct request *rq, void *kbuf, unsigned int len,
return PTR_ERR(bio);
ret = blk_rq_append_bio(rq, bio);
- if (unlikely(ret))
+ if (unlikely(ret)) {
+ if (do_copy)
+ bio_free_pages(bio);
blk_mq_map_bio_put(bio);
+ }
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_rq_map_kern);