[dm-devel] [PATCH 4/5] multipath: free vectors in configure

Benjamin Marzinski bmarzins at redhat.com
Tue May 11 23:22:03 UTC 2021


configure() can retry multiple times, each time reallocing a maps and
paths vector, and leaking the previous ones. Fix this by always freeing
the vectors before configure() exits. Found by coverity.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
---
 multipath/main.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/multipath/main.c b/multipath/main.c
index ef89c7cf..25c5dbfd 100644
--- a/multipath/main.c
+++ b/multipath/main.c
@@ -466,7 +466,6 @@ configure (struct config *conf, enum mpath_cmds cmd,
 	 */
 	curmp = vector_alloc();
 	pathvec = vector_alloc();
-	atexit(cleanup_vecs);
 
 	if (!curmp || !pathvec) {
 		condlog(0, "can not allocate memory");
@@ -578,6 +577,11 @@ out:
 	if (refwwid)
 		FREE(refwwid);
 
+	free_multipathvec(curmp, KEEP_PATHS);
+	vecs.mpvec = NULL;
+	free_pathvec(pathvec, FREE_PATHS);
+	vecs.pathvec = NULL;
+
 	return r;
 }
 
@@ -1053,6 +1057,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
 		r = dm_flush_maps(1, retries) ? RTVL_FAIL : RTVL_OK;
 		goto out;
 	}
+	atexit(cleanup_vecs);
 	while ((r = configure(conf, cmd, dev_type, dev)) == RTVL_RETRY)
 		condlog(3, "restart multipath configuration process");
 
-- 
2.17.2




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