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Date:	Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:51:51 +0200
From:	Paul Menzel <paulepanter@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nouveau: Do not leak in nv20_graph_create

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@...osbits.net>
> ---
>  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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