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

From: Marcin Slusarz
Date: Sun Jul 03 2011 - 10:39:32 EST


On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 01:21:55PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> From: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] nouveau: Do not leak in nv20_graph_create
>
> 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.

There's no need to change these strings. Nouveau prints chipset id earlier.
For patch with only kfrees:
Reviewed-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv20_graph.c | 4 +++-
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv20_graph.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv20_graph.c
> index affc7d7..53cbe84 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: chipset unknown.\n");
> return 0;
> }
> }
> --
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