This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/fb-helper: Fix connector ref leak on error
to the 4.8-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-fb-helper-fix-connector-ref-leak-on-error.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7dfcb36a1f17e4c7c7c12b9d8a6902037c7d98dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ville=20Syrj=C3=A4l=C3=A4?= <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:05:52 +0300
Subject: drm/fb-helper: Fix connector ref leak on error
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From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 7dfcb36a1f17e4c7c7c12b9d8a6902037c7d98dc upstream.
We need to drop the connector references already taken when we
abort in the middle of drm_fb_helper_single_add_all_connectors()
Cc: Carlos Santa <carlos.santa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Carlos Santa <carlos.santa@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1477472755-15288-2-git-send-email-ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
@@ -129,7 +129,12 @@ int drm_fb_helper_single_add_all_connect
return 0;
fail:
for (i = 0; i < fb_helper->connector_count; i++) {
- kfree(fb_helper->connector_info[i]);
+ struct drm_fb_helper_connector *fb_helper_connector =
+ fb_helper->connector_info[i];
+
+ drm_connector_unreference(fb_helper_connector->connector);
+
+ kfree(fb_helper_connector);
fb_helper->connector_info[i] = NULL;
}
fb_helper->connector_count = 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/x86-smpboot-init-apic-mapping-before-usage.patch
queue-4.8/drm-fb-helper-don-t-call-dirty-callback-for-untouched-clips.patch
queue-4.8/usb-gadget-function-u_ether-don-t-starve-tx-request-queue.patch
queue-4.8/drm-fb-helper-keep-references-for-the-current-set-of-used-connectors.patch
queue-4.8/drm-dp-mst-clear-port-pdt-when-tearing-down-the-i2c-adapter.patch
queue-4.8/drm-fb-helper-fix-connector-ref-leak-on-error.patch
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