With the explicit retry loop static analyzers get confused by the control flow and believe that e could be accessed after kfree. That's not possible, but it's non-obvious, so let's clear it to NULL. We already cleared e = NULL at the top of the function, so this is all in line. Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> Fixes: 29dc0d1de182 ("drm: Roll out acquire context for the page_flip ioctl") Cc: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c index ec62221d64a9..3a6de27bafed 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c @@ -922,6 +922,7 @@ int drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, ret = drm_event_reserve_init(dev, file_priv, &e->base, &e->event.base); if (ret) { kfree(e); + e = NULL; goto out; } } -- 2.11.0 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel