From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Lucas Costa <2000.costalucas@gmail.com>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: sm750fb: free cmap on framebuffer release
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:06:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <arKnc5rrOxe4l3Hf@stanley.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260922142851.46724-1-2000.costalucas@gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 11:28:51AM -0300, Lucas Costa wrote:
> The cmap is allocated by lynxfb_set_fbinfo() but never freed, so it is
> leaked when the framebuffer is torn down. This happens on every unbind,
> and on the register_framebuffer() error path in
> sm750fb_framebuffer_alloc().
>
> Add a lynxfb_unset_fbinfo() cleanup counterpart to lynxfb_set_fbinfo()
> which deallocates the cmap, and call it on teardown. In the alloc error
> path it is only called once lynxfb_set_fbinfo() has succeeded, so the
> cmap is only freed when it was actually allocated.
>
> Fixes: 81dee67e215b ("staging: sm750fb: add sm750 to staging")
> Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lucas Costa <2000.costalucas@gmail.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Move the cmap deallocation into a lynxfb_unset_fbinfo() cleanup
> counterpart to lynxfb_set_fbinfo(), instead of open-coding
> fb_dealloc_cmap() at each call site.
> - In the alloc error path, only unwind the cmap once
> lynxfb_set_fbinfo() has succeeded (Dan Carpenter).
Thanks!
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
regards,
dan carpenter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-22 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 3:53 [PATCH] " Lucas Costa
2026-09-22 5:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-09-22 14:25 ` Lucas Costa
2026-09-22 7:22 ` Dan Carpenter
2026-09-22 14:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Lucas Costa
2026-09-22 16:06 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
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