Hi Am 10.05.22 um 10:37 schrieb Thomas Zimmermann: ...
You have to go through all DRM drivers that call drm_fb_helper_fini() and make sure that they free fb_info. For example armada appears to be leaking now. [1]But shouldn't fb_info be freed when unregister_framebuffer() is called through drm_dev_unregister() ? AFAICT the call chain is the following: drm_put_dev() drm_dev_unregister() drm_client_dev_unregister() drm_fbdev_client_unregister() drm_fb_helper_unregister_fbi() unregister_framebuffer() do_unregister_framebuffer() put_fb_info() drm_fbdev_fb_destroy() framebuffer_release() which is the reason why I believe that drm_fb_helper_fini() should be an internal static function and only called from drm_fbdev_fb_destroy(). Drivers shouldn't really explicitly call this helper in my opinion.
One more stupid question: does armada actually use drm_fbdev_fb_destroy()? It's supposed to be a callback for struct fb_ops. Armada uses it's own instance of fb_ops, which apparently doesn't contain fb_destroy. [1]
Best regards Thomas[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.17.6/source/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_fbdev.c#L19
Thanks. That makes sense. Best regards Thomas
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