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Date:   Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:55:25 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] drm/selftests/test-drm_dp_mst_helper: fix memory
 leak allocated to 'out'

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Colin King wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Currently when txmsg fails to allocate then there is a leak on 'out'. Fix
> this by setting result to false and exiting via the clean up exit path.
> Note since txmsg is NULL at this point, the kfree of txmsg is a no-op.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak")
> Fixes: 09234b88ef55 ("drm/selftests/test-drm_dp_mst_helper: Move 'sideband_msg_req_encode_decode' onto the heap")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/selftests/test-drm_dp_mst_helper.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

This is fixed in my local branch.

Looks like the wrong version of the patch was sent/applied.

Either way, thanks for the fix Colin.

Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>

> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/selftests/test-drm_dp_mst_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/selftests/test-drm_dp_mst_helper.c
> index 6b4759ed6bfd..dbac073ed385 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/selftests/test-drm_dp_mst_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/selftests/test-drm_dp_mst_helper.c
> @@ -131,8 +131,10 @@ sideband_msg_req_encode_decode(struct drm_dp_sideband_msg_req_body *in)
>  		return false;
>  
>  	txmsg = kzalloc(sizeof(*txmsg), GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!txmsg)
> -		return false;
> +	if (!txmsg) {
> +		result = false;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
>  
>  	drm_dp_encode_sideband_req(in, txmsg);
>  	ret = drm_dp_decode_sideband_req(txmsg, out);

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