Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v3 1/5] OvmfPkg/GenericQemuLoadImageLib: plug cmdline blob leak on success

["Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 06/28/21 12:51, Dov Murik wrote:
> When QemuLoadKernelImage() ends successfully, the command-line blob is
> not freed, even though it is not used elsewhere (its content is already
> copied to KernelLoadedImage->LoadOptions).  The memory leak bug was
> introduced in commit ddd2be6b0026 ("OvmfPkg: provide a generic
> implementation of QemuLoadImageLib", 2020-03-05).
> 
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+tianocore@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
> Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum <tobin@linux.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> Fixes: ddd2be6b0026abcd0f819b3915fc80c3de81dd62
> Signed-off-by: Dov Murik <dovmurik@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  OvmfPkg/Library/GenericQemuLoadImageLib/GenericQemuLoadImageLib.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Library/GenericQemuLoadImageLib/GenericQemuLoadImageLib.c b/OvmfPkg/Library/GenericQemuLoadImageLib/GenericQemuLoadImageLib.c
> index 114db7e8441f..8a29976ae172 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/Library/GenericQemuLoadImageLib/GenericQemuLoadImageLib.c
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/Library/GenericQemuLoadImageLib/GenericQemuLoadImageLib.c
> @@ -193,14 +193,16 @@ QemuLoadKernelImage (
>    }
>  
>    *ImageHandle = KernelImageHandle;
> -  return EFI_SUCCESS;
> +  Status = EFI_SUCCESS;
>  
>  FreeCommandLine:
>    if (CommandLineSize > 0) {
>      FreePool (CommandLine);
>    }
>  UnloadImage:
> -  gBS->UnloadImage (KernelImageHandle);
> +  if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
> +    gBS->UnloadImage (KernelImageHandle);
> +  }
>  
>    return Status;
>  }
> 

using an aarch64 guest,

Tested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>