Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Fix object refcount leak on mmappable size limit error path.

From: Keith Packard
Date: Tue Nov 01 2011 - 02:58:32 EST


On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:16:21 -0700, Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been seeing memory leaks on my system in the form of large
> (300-400MB) GEM objects created by now-dead processes laying around
> clogging up memory. I usually notice when it gets to about 1.2GB of
> them. Hopefully this clears up the issue, but I just found this bug
> by inspection.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx

Reviewed-by: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx

I wouldn't mind having someone audit the driver for more places where
drm_gem_object_lookup might not be paired with drm_gem_object_unreference...

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