linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer

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Message-ID: <aF57eMeNafg1w9Qw@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:07:36 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
	Abdun Nihaal <abdun.nihaal@...il.com>, andy@...nel.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com,
	tzimmermann@...e.de, riyandhiman14@...il.com, willy@...radead.org,
	notro@...nnes.org, thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in
 fbtft_framebuffer_alloc()

On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 12:59:30AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 11:11:39PM +0300, Dan Carpenter kirjoitti:
> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 08:50:43PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 10:54:10PM +0530, Abdun Nihaal wrote:

...

> Ah, you have a point. Yes, the moving vmem allocation will solve the ordering
> issue.

...with moving from devm for the txbuf. Otherwise we would still have a
problematic ordering with it.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko