linux-kernel - [PATCH RESEND] drm/ast: free correct pointer in astfb

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Message-Id: <20161114030359.27852-1-andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:03:59 +1100
From:   Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>
To:     airlied@...il.com, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        daniel.vetter@...ll.ch
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RESEND] drm/ast: free correct pointer in astfb_create() error paths

In the err_free_vram and err_release_fbi error paths in astfb_create(), we
attempt to free afbdev->sysram. The only jumps to these error paths occur
before we assign afbdev->sysram = sysram. Free sysram instead.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>

---

Found by Coverity Scan. Compile tested only.
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_fb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_fb.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_fb.c
index 7a86e24..d6f5ec6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_fb.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_fb.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ static int astfb_create(struct drm_fb_helper *helper,
 err_release_fbi:
 	drm_fb_helper_release_fbi(helper);
 err_free_vram:
-	vfree(afbdev->sysram);
+	vfree(sysram);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited