Hello David Howells,
The patch 108f95bfaa56: "vfs: Convert ceph to use the new mount API"
from Mar 25, 2019, leads to the following static checker warning:
drivers/block/rbd.c:7141 do_rbd_add()
warn: passing freed memory 'ctx.opt'
drivers/block/rbd.c
7046 /* parse add command */
7047 rc = rbd_add_parse_args(buf, &ctx);
7048 if (rc < 0)
7049 goto out;
7050
7051 rbdc = rbd_get_client(ctx.opt);
This looks like it frees ctx.opt if rbd_client_find() returns non-NULL.
7052 if (IS_ERR(rbdc)) {
7053 rc = PTR_ERR(rbdc);
7054 goto err_out_args;
7055 }
7056
7057 /* pick the pool */
7058 rc = ceph_pg_poolid_by_name(rbdc->client->osdc.osdmap,
7059 ctx.rbd_spec->pool_name);
7060 if (rc < 0) {
7061 if (rc == -ENOENT)
7062 pr_info("pool %s does not exist\n",
ctx.rbd_spec->pool_name);
7063 goto err_out_client;
7064 }
[ snip ]
7125 out:
7126 module_put(THIS_MODULE);
7127 return rc;
7128
7129 err_out_image_lock:
7130 rbd_dev_image_unlock(rbd_dev);
7131 rbd_dev_device_release(rbd_dev);
7132 err_out_image_probe:
7133 rbd_dev_image_release(rbd_dev);
7134 err_out_rbd_dev:
7135 rbd_dev_destroy(rbd_dev);
7136 err_out_client:
7137 rbd_put_client(rbdc);
7138 err_out_args:
7139 rbd_spec_put(ctx.rbd_spec);
7140 kfree(ctx.rbd_opts);
7141 ceph_destroy_options(ctx.opt);
^^^^^^^
Double free.
7142 goto out;
7143 }
regards,
dan carpenter