linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fbdev: vt8500lcdfb: fix missing dma_free

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Message-ID: <32d0d8bb-0bf2-47ed-abfb-d84b475ab16a@web.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:46:01 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Thomas Fourier <fourier.thomas@...il.com>, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 Alexey Charkov <alchark@...il.com>, Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: vt8500lcdfb: fix missing dma_free_coherent()

> fbi->fb.screen_buffer is alloced with dma_free_coherent() but is not

                           allocated with a dma_alloc_coherent() call?

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc4/source/drivers/video/fbdev/vt8500lcdfb.c#L352-L362


> freed if the error path is reached.

See also once more:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.19-rc4#n94


You should probably not only specify message recipients in the header field “Cc”.

Regards,
Markus