[PATCH] drm/vmwgfx: fix memory leak when too many retries have occurred

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Mon Jun 24 16:13:34 UTC 2019


On 24/06/2019 17:10, Deepak Singh Rawat wrote:
> Hi Colin,
> 
> Thanks for doing this.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Deepak Rawat <drawat at vmware.com>
> 
> Do you want me to include this in vmwgfx-next or will you submit this
> via drm-mics?

Can you include it into vmwgfx-next?

Thanks

Colin

> 
> On Fri, 2019-06-21 at 23:35 +0100, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>>
>> Currently when too many retries have occurred there is a memory
>> leak on the allocation for reply on the error return path. Fix
>> this by kfree'ing reply before returning.
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak")
>> Fixes: a9cd9c044aa9 ("drm/vmwgfx: Add a check to handle host message
>> failure")
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c | 4 +++-
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c
>> index 8b9270f31409..8b61f16f50cf 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c
>> @@ -301,8 +301,10 @@ static int vmw_recv_msg(struct rpc_channel
>> *channel, void **msg,
>>  		break;
>>  	}
>>  
>> -	if (retries == RETRIES)
>> +	if (retries == RETRIES) {
>> +		kfree(reply);
>>  		return -EINVAL;
>> +	}
>>  
>>  	*msg_len = reply_len;
>>  	*msg     = reply;
> 



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