kmemleak reported a memory leak as below.
unreferenced object 0xffff880036ca84c0 (size 16):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294877407 (age 4434.633s)
hex dump (first 16 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff814ed01e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
[<ffffffff8118913c>] __kmalloc+0x1fc/0x290
[<ffffffff81302c9e>] bit_cursor+0x24e/0x6c0
[<ffffffff812ff2f4>] fbcon_cursor+0x154/0x1d0
[<ffffffff813675d8>] hide_cursor+0x28/0xa0
[<ffffffff81368acf>] update_region+0x6f/0x90
[<ffffffff81300268>] fbcon_switch+0x518/0x550
[<ffffffff813695b9>] redraw_screen+0x189/0x240
[<ffffffff8136a0e0>] do_bind_con_driver+0x360/0x380
[<ffffffff8136a6e4>] do_take_over_console+0x114/0x1c0
[<ffffffff812fdc83>] do_fbcon_takeover+0x63/0xd0
[<ffffffff813023e5>] fbcon_event_notify+0x605/0x720
[<ffffffff81501dcc>] notifier_call_chain+0x4c/0x70
[<ffffffff81087f8d>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x4d/0x70
[<ffffffff81087fc6>] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20
[<ffffffff812f201b>] fb_notifier_call_chain+0x1b/0x20
In this case ops->cursor_state.mask is allocated in bit_cursor() but
not freed in fbcon_exit(). So, fbcon_exit() needs to free buffer in its
process.
In the case, fbcon_exit() was called from fbcon_deinit() when driver
called remove_conflicting_framebuffers().
Signed-off-by: Masami Ichikawa <masami256@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
index cd8a802..4f02375 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
@@ -3561,6 +3561,7 @@ static void fbcon_exit(void)
fbcon_del_cursor_timer(info);
kfree(ops->cursor_src);
+ kfree(ops->cursor_state.mask);
kfree(info->fbcon_par);
info->fbcon_par = NULL;
}
--
1.8.4.2
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