This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/msm: fix leak in failed get_pages to the 3.18-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-msm-fix-leak-in-failed-get_pages.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 15:16:04 CET 2018 From: Prakash Kamliya <pkamliya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 19:10:15 +0530 Subject: drm/msm: fix leak in failed get_pages From: Prakash Kamliya <pkamliya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 62e3a3e342af3c313ab38603811ecdb1fcc79edb ] get_pages doesn't keep a reference of the pages allocated when it fails later in the code path. This can lead to a memory leak. Keep reference of the allocated pages so that it can be freed when msm_gem_free_object gets called later during cleanup. Signed-off-by: Prakash Kamliya <pkamliya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sharat Masetty <smasetty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c @@ -83,14 +83,17 @@ static struct page **get_pages(struct dr return p; } + msm_obj->pages = p; + msm_obj->sgt = drm_prime_pages_to_sg(p, npages); if (IS_ERR(msm_obj->sgt)) { + void *ptr = ERR_CAST(msm_obj->sgt); + dev_err(dev->dev, "failed to allocate sgt\n"); - return ERR_CAST(msm_obj->sgt); + msm_obj->sgt = NULL; + return ptr; } - msm_obj->pages = p; - /* For non-cached buffers, ensure the new pages are clean * because display controller, GPU, etc. are not coherent: */ @@ -113,7 +116,10 @@ static void put_pages(struct drm_gem_obj if (msm_obj->flags & (MSM_BO_WC|MSM_BO_UNCACHED)) dma_unmap_sg(obj->dev->dev, msm_obj->sgt->sgl, msm_obj->sgt->nents, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL); - sg_free_table(msm_obj->sgt); + + if (msm_obj->sgt) + sg_free_table(msm_obj->sgt); + kfree(msm_obj->sgt); if (iommu_present(&platform_bus_type)) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pkamliya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/drm-msm-fix-leak-in-failed-get_pages.patch