[PATCH v2 2/2] drm/amd/display: fix leak of probed modes

[Melissa Wen]

On 19/08/2025 15:46, Fedor Pchelkin wrote:
> amdgpu_dm_connector_ddc_get_modes() reinitializes a connector's probed
> modes list without cleaning it up. First time it is called during the
> driver's initialization phase, then via drm_mode_getconnector() ioctl.
> The leaks observed with Kmemleak are as following:
>
> unreferenced object 0xffff88812f91b200 (size 128):
>    comm "(udev-worker)", pid 388, jiffies 4294695475
>    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>      ac dd 07 00 80 02 70 0b 90 0b e0 0b 00 00 e0 01  ......p.........
>      0b 07 10 07 5c 07 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ....\...........
>    backtrace (crc 89db554f):
>      __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3a3/0x490
>      drm_mode_duplicate+0x8e/0x2b0
>      amdgpu_dm_create_common_mode+0x40/0x150 [amdgpu]
>      amdgpu_dm_connector_add_common_modes+0x336/0x488 [amdgpu]
>      amdgpu_dm_connector_get_modes+0x428/0x8a0 [amdgpu]
>      amdgpu_dm_initialize_drm_device+0x1389/0x17b4 [amdgpu]
>      amdgpu_dm_init.cold+0x157b/0x1a1e [amdgpu]
>      dm_hw_init+0x3f/0x110 [amdgpu]
>      amdgpu_device_ip_init+0xcf4/0x1180 [amdgpu]
>      amdgpu_device_init.cold+0xb84/0x1863 [amdgpu]
>      amdgpu_driver_load_kms+0x15/0x90 [amdgpu]
>      amdgpu_pci_probe+0x391/0xce0 [amdgpu]
>      local_pci_probe+0xd9/0x190
>      pci_call_probe+0x183/0x540
>      pci_device_probe+0x171/0x2c0
>      really_probe+0x1e1/0x890
>
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Fixes: acc96ae0d127 ("drm/amd/display: set panel orientation before drm_dev_register")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin at ispras.ru>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> index cd0e2976e268..7ec1f9afc081 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> @@ -8227,9 +8227,12 @@ static void amdgpu_dm_connector_ddc_get_modes(struct drm_connector *connector,
>   {
>   	struct amdgpu_dm_connector *amdgpu_dm_connector =
>   			to_amdgpu_dm_connector(connector);
> +	struct drm_display_mode *mode, *t;
>   
>   	if (drm_edid) {
>   		/* empty probed_modes */
> +		list_for_each_entry_safe(mode, t, &connector->probed_modes, head)
> +			drm_mode_remove(connector, mode);
>   		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&connector->probed_modes);
>   		amdgpu_dm_connector->num_modes =
>   				drm_edid_connector_add_modes(connector);

What if you update the connector with the drm_edid data and skip the 
INIT_LIST_HEAD instead?

Something like:

if (drm_edid) {
    drm_edid_connector_update(connector, drm_edid);
    amdgpu_drm_connector->num_modes = 
drm_edid_connector_add_modes(connector);
[...]
}

Isn't it enough?

Melissa