[PATCH v3 3/5] lib: kunit_iov_iter: Fix memory leaks

From: Christian A. Ehrhardt

Date: Thu Mar 26 2026 - 17:51:50 EST


Use vfree() instead of vunmap() to free the buffer allocated
by iov_kunit_create_buffer() because vunmap() does not honour
VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES. In order for this to work the page array
itself must not be managed by kunit.

Remove the folio_put() when destroying a folioq. This is handled
by vfree(), now.

Pointed out by sashiko.dev on a previous iteration of this series.

Tested by running the kunit test 10000 times in a loop.

Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 2d71340ff1d4 ("iov_iter: Kunit tests for copying to/from an iterator")
Signed-off-by: Christian A. Ehrhardt <lk@xxxxxxx>
---
lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c | 14 ++++++++------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c b/lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c
index bb847e5010eb..d16449bdb833 100644
--- a/lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static inline u8 pattern(unsigned long x)

static void iov_kunit_unmap(void *data)
{
- vunmap(data);
+ vfree(data);
}

static void *__init iov_kunit_create_buffer(struct kunit *test,
@@ -53,17 +53,22 @@ static void *__init iov_kunit_create_buffer(struct kunit *test,
unsigned long got;
void *buffer;

- pages = kunit_kcalloc(test, npages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL);
- KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, pages);
+ pages = kzalloc_objs(struct page *, npages, GFP_KERNEL);
+ KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, pages);
*ppages = pages;

got = alloc_pages_bulk(GFP_KERNEL, npages, pages);
if (got != npages) {
release_pages(pages, got);
+ kvfree(pages);
KUNIT_ASSERT_EQ(test, got, npages);
}

buffer = vmap(pages, npages, VM_MAP | VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES, PAGE_KERNEL);
+ if (buffer == NULL) {
+ release_pages(pages, got);
+ kvfree(pages);
+ }
KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, buffer);

kunit_add_action_or_reset(test, iov_kunit_unmap, buffer);
@@ -369,9 +374,6 @@ static void iov_kunit_destroy_folioq(void *data)

for (folioq = data; folioq; folioq = next) {
next = folioq->next;
- for (int i = 0; i < folioq_nr_slots(folioq); i++)
- if (folioq_folio(folioq, i))
- folio_put(folioq_folio(folioq, i));
kfree(folioq);
}
}
--
2.43.0