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Hi, Chen-yu:

On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 16:32 +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
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> The MediaTek DRM driver implements GEM PRIME vmap by fetching the
> sg_table for the object, iterating through the pages, and then
> vmapping them. In essence, unlike the GEM DMA helpers which vmap
> when the object is first created or imported, the MediaTek version
> does it on request.
>
> Unfortunately, the code never correctly frees the sg_table contents.
> This results in a kernel memory leak. On a Hayato device with a text
> console on the internal display, this results in the system running
> out of memory in a few days from all the console screen cursor
> updates.
>
> Add sg_free_table() to correctly free the contents of the sg_table.
> This
> was missing despite explicitly required by
> mtk_gem_prime_get_sg_table().
>
> Also move the "out" shortcut label to after the kfree() call for the
> sg_table. Having sg_free_table() together with kfree() makes more
> sense.
> The shortcut is only used when the object already has a kernel
> address,
> in which case the pointer is NULL and kfree() does nothing. Hence
> this
> change causes no functional change.

Reviewed-by: CK Hu <ck.hu@mediatek.com>

>
> Fixes: 3df64d7b0a4f ("drm/mediatek: Implement gem prime vmap/vunmap
> function")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
> ---
> Please merge for v6.6 fixes.
>
> Also, I was wondering why the MediaTek DRM driver implements a lot of
> the GEM functionality itself, instead of using the GEM DMA helpers.
> From what I could tell, the code closely follows the DMA helpers,
> except
> that it vmaps the buffers only upon request.

The reason is that priv->dma_dev is different with drm_dev, so MediaTek
DRM driver have to implement its own function. Exynos DRM driver also
has this problem, so it's welcome anyone to simplify both DRM driver.

Regards,
CK

>
> drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_gem.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_gem.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_gem.c
> index 9f364df52478..0e0a41b2f57f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_drm_gem.c
> @@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ int mtk_drm_gem_prime_vmap(struct drm_gem_object
> *obj, struct iosys_map *map)
> npages = obj->size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> mtk_gem->pages = kcalloc(npages, sizeof(*mtk_gem->pages),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!mtk_gem->pages) {
> +sg_free_table(sgt);
> kfree(sgt);
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
> @@ -248,12 +249,15 @@ int mtk_drm_gem_prime_vmap(struct
> drm_gem_object *obj, struct iosys_map *map)
> mtk_gem->kvaddr = vmap(mtk_gem->pages, npages, VM_MAP,
> pgprot_writecombine(PAGE_KERNEL));
> if (!mtk_gem->kvaddr) {
> +sg_free_table(sgt);
> kfree(sgt);
> kfree(mtk_gem->pages);
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
> -out:
> +sg_free_table(sgt);
> kfree(sgt);
> +
> +out:
> iosys_map_set_vaddr(map, mtk_gem->kvaddr);
>
> return 0;
> --
> 2.42.0.582.g8ccd20d70d-goog

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