This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/mediatek/dp: Fix spurious kfree()
to the 6.6-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-mediatek-dp-fix-spurious-kfree.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 58f2510db8f12ff92aecbb8faa334e1f892c6234
Author: Michael Walle <mwalle@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jun 4 10:33:37 2024 +0200
drm/mediatek/dp: Fix spurious kfree()
[ Upstream commit 8ad49a92cff4bab13eb2f2725243f5f31eff3f3b ]
drm_edid_to_sad() might return an error or just zero. If that is the
case, we must not free the SADs because there was no allocation in
the first place.
Fixes: dab12fa8d2bd ("drm/mediatek/dp: fix memory leak on ->get_edid callback audio detection")
Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <mwalle@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mediatek/patch/20240604083337.1879188-1-mwalle@xxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Chun-Kuang Hu <chunkuang.hu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_dp.c
index ff8436fb6e0d8..48a4defbc66cc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_dp.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/mediatek/mtk_dp.c
@@ -2058,9 +2058,15 @@ static const struct drm_edid *mtk_dp_edid_read(struct drm_bridge *bridge,
*/
const struct edid *edid = drm_edid_raw(drm_edid);
struct cea_sad *sads;
+ int ret;
- audio_caps->sad_count = drm_edid_to_sad(edid, &sads);
- kfree(sads);
+ ret = drm_edid_to_sad(edid, &sads);
+ /* Ignore any errors */
+ if (ret < 0)
+ ret = 0;
+ if (ret)
+ kfree(sads);
+ audio_caps->sad_count = ret;
/*
* FIXME: This should use connector->display_info.has_audio from
