It is expected from the clients to follow the below steps on an imported dmabuf fd: a) dmabuf = dma_buf_get(fd) // Get the dmabuf from fd b) dma_buf_attach(dmabuf); // Clients attach to the dmabuf o Here the kernel does some slab allocations, say for dma_buf_attachment and may be some other slab allocation in the dmabuf->ops->attach(). c) Client may need to do dma_buf_map_attachment(). d) Accordingly dma_buf_unmap_attachment() should be called. e) dma_buf_detach () // Clients detach to the dmabuf. o Here the slab allocations made in b) are freed. f) dma_buf_put(dmabuf) // Can free the dmabuf if it is the last reference. Now say an erroneous client failed at step c) above thus it directly called dma_buf_put(), step f) above. Considering that it may be the last reference to the dmabuf, buffer will be freed with pending attachments left to the dmabuf which can show up as the 'memory leak'. This should at least be reported as the WARN(). Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c index 511fe0d..733c8b1 100644 --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ static void dma_buf_release(struct dentry *dentry) if (dmabuf->resv == (struct dma_resv *)&dmabuf[1]) dma_resv_fini(dmabuf->resv); + WARN_ON(!list_empty(&dmabuf->attachments)); module_put(dmabuf->owner); kfree(dmabuf->name); kfree(dmabuf); -- QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation
