linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nouveau/firmware: Add missing kfree() of nvkm_falcon

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Message-ID: <ec1d78423b4e65fd5ba66c43121b1b7c76c15b79.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:02:47 -0500
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Nam Cao <namcao@...utronix.de>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, 
 Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard
 <mripard@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann	 <tzimmermann@...e.de>, David
 Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter	 <simona@...ll.ch>, Ben Skeggs
 <bskeggs@...hat.com>, 	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, 	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nouveau/firmware: Add missing kfree() of
 nvkm_falcon_fw::boot

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>

Will push in a moment, thanks!

On Mon, 2025-11-17 at 08:42 +0000, Nam Cao wrote:
> nvkm_falcon_fw::boot is allocated, but no one frees it. This causes a
> kmemleak warning.
> 
> Make sure this data is deallocated.
> 
> Fixes: 2541626cfb79 ("drm/nouveau/acr: use common falcon HS FW code for ACR FWs")
> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@...utronix.de>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/falcon/fw.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/falcon/fw.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/falcon/fw.c
> index cac6d64ab67d..4e8b3f1c7e25 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/falcon/fw.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/falcon/fw.c
> @@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ nvkm_falcon_fw_dtor(struct nvkm_falcon_fw *fw)
>  	nvkm_memory_unref(&fw->inst);
>  	nvkm_falcon_fw_dtor_sigs(fw);
>  	nvkm_firmware_dtor(&fw->fw);
> +	kfree(fw->boot);
> +	fw->boot = NULL;
>  }
>  
>  static const struct nvkm_firmware_func

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat

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