This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/amd/display: Decrement refcount of dc_sink before reassignment to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-amd-display-decrement-refcount-of-dc_sink-before.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 5c92b5938603a010702523b0f6a076d30bd65313 Author: Victor Lu <victorchengchi.lu@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jan 15 11:02:48 2021 -0500 drm/amd/display: Decrement refcount of dc_sink before reassignment [ Upstream commit 8e92bb0fa75bca9a57e4aba2e36f67d8016a3053 ] [why] An old dc_sink state is causing a memory leak because it is missing a dc_sink_release before a new dc_sink is assigned back to aconnector->dc_sink. [how] Decrement the dc_sink refcount before reassigning it to a new dc_sink. Signed-off-by: Victor Lu <victorchengchi.lu@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Siqueira <Rodrigo.Siqueira@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Anson Jacob <Anson.Jacob@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Daniel Wheeler <daniel.wheeler@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c index 321df20fcdb99..fdca76fc598c0 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c @@ -2261,8 +2261,10 @@ void amdgpu_dm_update_connector_after_detect( * TODO: check if we still need the S3 mode update workaround. * If yes, put it here. */ - if (aconnector->dc_sink) + if (aconnector->dc_sink) { amdgpu_dm_update_freesync_caps(connector, NULL); + dc_sink_release(aconnector->dc_sink); + } aconnector->dc_sink = sink; dc_sink_retain(aconnector->dc_sink);