From: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
To: raoxu <raoxu@uniontech.com>, mathias.nyman@intel.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] xhci: sideband: fix ring sg table pages leak
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:55:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6162a0c6-9621-471b-b425-2f821cec6594@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37074E2036AAAC12+20260610093857.1427999-1-raoxu@uniontech.com>
On 6/10/26 12:38, raoxu wrote:
> From: Xu Rao <raoxu@uniontech.com>
>
> xhci_ring_to_sgtable() allocates a temporary pages array and
> uses it to build the returned sg_table with
> sg_alloc_table_from_pages().
>
> The error paths free the pages array, but the success path
> returns the sg_table without freeing it. This leaks the temporary
> array every time a sideband client gets an endpoint or event ring
> buffer.
>
> Free the pages array after sg_alloc_table_from_pages() succeeds.
> The returned sg_table has its own scatterlist entries and does not
> depend on the temporary array after construction.
>
> Fixes: de66754e9f80 ("xhci: sideband: add initial api to register a secondary interrupter entity")
>
> Signed-off-by: Xu Rao <raoxu@uniontech.com>
> ---
> drivers/usb/host/xhci-sideband.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-sideband.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-sideband.c
> index 23153e136d4b..a5deeee4d5dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-sideband.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-sideband.c
> @@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ xhci_ring_to_sgtable(struct xhci_sideband *sb, struct xhci_ring *ring)
> if (sg_alloc_table_from_pages(sgt, pages, n_pages, 0, sz, GFP_KERNEL))
> goto err;
>
> + kvfree(pages);
> +
> /*
> * Save first segment dma address to sg dma_address field for the sideband
> * client to have access to the IOVA of the ring.
> --
> 2.50.1
>
Thanks
Adding to queue,
will send forward after 7.2-rc1
-Mathias
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