Re: [PATCH] nouveau: Do not leak in nv20_graph_create

From: Paul Menzel
Date: Sun Jul 03 2011 - 07:08:20 EST


Dear Jesper,


Am Sonntag, den 03.07.2011, 12:25 +0200 schrieb Jesper Juhl:
> If we return due to an unknown chipset in
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv20_graph.c:nv20_graph_create() we'll leak the
> memory allocated to 'pgraph'.
>
> This patch should fix the leak and it also disambiguates the "PGRAPH:
> unknown chipset\n" error message - it's nice to be able to tell which
> branch created the error which is impossible if the error messages are
> 100% identical.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv20_graph.c | 4 +++-
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> Don't have the hardware, so compile tested only.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv20_graph.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv20_graph.c
> index affc7d7..059ad65 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv20_graph.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv20_graph.c
> @@ -752,6 +752,7 @@ nv20_graph_create(struct drm_device *dev)
> pgraph->grctx_user = 0x0000;
> break;
> default:
> + kfree(pgraph);
> NV_ERROR(dev, "PGRAPH: unknown chipset\n");
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -773,7 +774,8 @@ nv20_graph_create(struct drm_device *dev)
> pgraph->grctx_size = NV35_36_GRCTX_SIZE;
> break;
> default:
> - NV_ERROR(dev, "PGRAPH: unknown chipset\n");
> + kfree(pgraph);
> + NV_ERROR(dev, "PGRAPH: unknown chipset.\n");

so the only disambiguation is the full stop at the end?

> return 0;
> }
> }
> --
> 1.7.6


Thanks,

Paul

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