[PATCH] drm/nouveau/gsp: fix potential leak of memory used during acpi init

Ben Skeggs bskeggs at nvidia.com
Tue Jun 17 04:00:36 UTC 2025


If any of the ACPI calls fail, memory allocated for the input buffer
would be leaked.  Fix failure paths to free allocated memory.

Also add checks to ensure the allocations succeeded in the first place.

Reported-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr at kernel.org>
Fixes: 176fdcbddfd2 ("drm/nouveau/gsp/r535: add support for booting GSP-RM")
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at nvidia.com>
---
 .../drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/rm/r535/gsp.c | 20 +++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/rm/r535/gsp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/rm/r535/gsp.c
index baf42339f93e..b098a7555fde 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/rm/r535/gsp.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/rm/r535/gsp.c
@@ -719,7 +719,6 @@ r535_gsp_acpi_caps(acpi_handle handle, CAPS_METHOD_DATA *caps)
 	union acpi_object argv4 = {
 		.buffer.type    = ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER,
 		.buffer.length  = 4,
-		.buffer.pointer = kmalloc(argv4.buffer.length, GFP_KERNEL),
 	}, *obj;
 
 	caps->status = 0xffff;
@@ -727,17 +726,22 @@ r535_gsp_acpi_caps(acpi_handle handle, CAPS_METHOD_DATA *caps)
 	if (!acpi_check_dsm(handle, &NVOP_DSM_GUID, NVOP_DSM_REV, BIT_ULL(0x1a)))
 		return;
 
+	argv4.buffer.pointer = kmalloc(argv4.buffer.length, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!argv4.buffer.pointer)
+		return;
+
 	obj = acpi_evaluate_dsm(handle, &NVOP_DSM_GUID, NVOP_DSM_REV, 0x1a, &argv4);
 	if (!obj)
-		return;
+		goto done;
 
 	if (WARN_ON(obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER) ||
 	    WARN_ON(obj->buffer.length != 4))
-		return;
+		goto done;
 
 	caps->status = 0;
 	caps->optimusCaps = *(u32 *)obj->buffer.pointer;
 
+done:
 	ACPI_FREE(obj);
 
 	kfree(argv4.buffer.pointer);
@@ -754,24 +758,28 @@ r535_gsp_acpi_jt(acpi_handle handle, JT_METHOD_DATA *jt)
 	union acpi_object argv4 = {
 		.buffer.type    = ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER,
 		.buffer.length  = sizeof(caps),
-		.buffer.pointer = kmalloc(argv4.buffer.length, GFP_KERNEL),
 	}, *obj;
 
 	jt->status = 0xffff;
 
+	argv4.buffer.pointer = kmalloc(argv4.buffer.length, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!argv4.buffer.pointer)
+		return;
+
 	obj = acpi_evaluate_dsm(handle, &JT_DSM_GUID, JT_DSM_REV, 0x1, &argv4);
 	if (!obj)
-		return;
+		goto done;
 
 	if (WARN_ON(obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER) ||
 	    WARN_ON(obj->buffer.length != 4))
-		return;
+		goto done;
 
 	jt->status = 0;
 	jt->jtCaps = *(u32 *)obj->buffer.pointer;
 	jt->jtRevId = (jt->jtCaps & 0xfff00000) >> 20;
 	jt->bSBIOSCaps = 0;
 
+done:
 	ACPI_FREE(obj);
 
 	kfree(argv4.buffer.pointer);
-- 
2.49.0



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