[PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc()

Abdun Nihaal abdun.nihaal at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 17:24:10 UTC 2025


In the error paths after fb_info structure is successfully allocated,
the memory allocated in fb_deferred_io_init() for info->pagerefs is not
freed. Fix that by adding the cleanup function on the error path.

Fixes: c296d5f9957c ("staging: fbtft: core support")
Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal <abdun.nihaal at gmail.com>
---
This patch is compile tested only. Not tested on real hardware.
Bug was found using our prototype static analysis tool.

 drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c
index da9c64152a60..39bced400065 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c
@@ -692,6 +692,7 @@ struct fb_info *fbtft_framebuffer_alloc(struct fbtft_display *display,
 	return info;
 
 release_framebuf:
+	fb_deferred_io_cleanup(info);
 	framebuffer_release(info);
 
 alloc_fail:
-- 
2.43.0



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