[PATCH] drm/nouveau/gsp: fix mismatched alloc/free for kvmalloc()
Timur Tabi
ttabi at nvidia.com
Tue Aug 12 22:52:07 UTC 2025
On Mon, 2025-08-11 at 17:19 +0800, Qianfeng Rong wrote:
> Replace kfree() with kvfree() for memory allocated by kvmalloc().
>
> Compile-tested only.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng at vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Timur Tabi <ttabi at nvidia.com>
This does fix a real bug.
However, I think the real problem is that it's really confusing that
r535_gsp_msgq_recv_one_elem(gsp, &info) returns info.gsp_rpc_buf instead of just success/failure.
r535_gsp_msgq_recv() does this:
buf = kvmalloc(max_t(u32, rpc->length, expected), GFP_KERNEL);
...
info.gsp_rpc_buf = buf;
...
buf = r535_gsp_msgq_recv_one_elem(gsp, &info);
You wouldn't know it, but this does not change the value of 'buf' unless
r535_gsp_msgq_recv_one_elem() fails. If it does fail, the code does this:
if (IS_ERR(buf)) {
kvfree(info.gsp_rpc_buf);
It would be a lot clearer if we could kvfree(buf) here, but we can't because 'buf' no longer points
to the buffer, even though the buffer still exists.
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