[PATCH] drm/atomic: fix memory leak when fetching format name

Colin King colin.king at canonical.com
Fri Nov 11 16:26:22 UTC 2016


From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

drm_get_format_name allocates memory that is not currently free'd
when printing the state. Fix this by kfree'ing the memory after
use.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
index f5ea7db..1d5e86a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c
@@ -917,9 +917,10 @@ static void drm_atomic_plane_print_state(struct drm_printer *p,
 	if (state->fb) {
 		struct drm_framebuffer *fb = state->fb;
 		int i, n = drm_format_num_planes(fb->pixel_format);
+		char *format_name = drm_get_format_name(fb->pixel_format);
 
-		drm_printf(p, "\t\tformat=%s\n",
-				drm_get_format_name(fb->pixel_format));
+		drm_printf(p, "\t\tformat=%s\n", format_name);
+		kfree(format_name);
 		drm_printf(p, "\t\tsize=%dx%d\n", fb->width, fb->height);
 		drm_printf(p, "\t\tlayers:\n");
 		for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
-- 
2.10.2



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