The removed line prevents the following cleanup function to execute a dma_fence_put on the out_fence to free its memory, producing the following output in kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff888126d8ee00 (size 128): comm "kwin_wayland", pid 981, jiffies 4295380296 (age 390.060s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): c8 a1 c2 27 81 88 ff ff e0 14 a9 c0 ff ff ff ff ...'............ 30 1a e1 2e a6 00 00 00 28 fc 5b 17 81 88 ff ff 0.......(.[..... backtrace: [<0000000011655661>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0xa0 [<0000000055f15b82>] virtio_gpu_fence_alloc+0x47/0xc0 [virtio_gpu] [<00000000fa6d96f9>] virtio_gpu_execbuffer_ioctl+0x1a8/0x800 [virtio_gpu] [<00000000e6cb5105>] drm_ioctl_kernel+0x169/0x240 [drm] [<000000005ad33e27>] drm_ioctl+0x399/0x6b0 [drm] [<00000000a19dbf65>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xc5/0x100 [<0000000011fa801e>] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0xc0 [<0000000065c76d8a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 unreferenced object 0xffff888121930500 (size 128): comm "kwin_wayland", pid 981, jiffies 4295380313 (age 390.096s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): c8 a1 c2 27 81 88 ff ff e0 14 a9 c0 ff ff ff ff ...'............ f9 ec d7 2f a6 00 00 00 28 fc 5b 17 81 88 ff ff .../....(.[..... backtrace: [<0000000011655661>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0xa0 [<0000000055f15b82>] virtio_gpu_fence_alloc+0x47/0xc0 [virtio_gpu] [<00000000fa6d96f9>] virtio_gpu_execbuffer_ioctl+0x1a8/0x800 [virtio_gpu] [<00000000e6cb5105>] drm_ioctl_kernel+0x169/0x240 [drm] [<000000005ad33e27>] drm_ioctl+0x399/0x6b0 [drm] [<00000000a19dbf65>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xc5/0x100 [<0000000011fa801e>] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0xc0 [<0000000065c76d8a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 [...] This memleak will grow quickly, being possible to see the following line in dmesg after few minutes of life in the virtual machine: [ 706.217388] kmemleak: 10731 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) The patch will remove the line to allow the cleanup function do its job. Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c index 3c00135ead45..5c514946bbad 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c @@ -361,7 +361,6 @@ static void virtio_gpu_complete_submit(struct virtio_gpu_submit *submit) submit->buf = NULL; submit->buflist = NULL; submit->sync_file = NULL; - submit->out_fence = NULL; submit->out_fence_fd = -1; } -- 2.39.2