[PATCH V2 1/2] remoteproc: imx_rproc: release carveout under imx_rproc after rproc_attach() fails

Xiaolei Wang
2025-04-26T07:22:22Z

When rproc->state = RPROC_DETACHED and rproc_attach() is used
to attach to the remote processor, if rproc_handle_resources()
returns a failure, the resources allocated by rproc_prepare_device()
should be released, otherwise the following memory leak will occur.

Therefore, add imx_rproc_unprepare() to imx_rproc to release the
memory allocated in imx_rproc_prepare().

unreferenced object 0xffff0000861c5d00 (size 128):
comm "kworker/u12:3", pid 59, jiffies 4294893509 (age 149.220s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 02 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 ............
backtrace:
[<00000000f949fe18>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x98/0x37c
[<00000000adbfb3e7>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x138/0x2e0
[<00000000521c0345>] kmalloc_trace+0x40/0x158
[<000000004e330a49>] rproc_mem_entry_init+0x60/0xf8
[<000000002815755e>] imx_rproc_prepare+0xe0/0x180
[<0000000003f61b4e>] rproc_boot+0x2ec/0x528
[<00000000e7e994ac>] rproc_add+0x124/0x17c
[<0000000048594076>] imx_rproc_probe+0x4ec/0x5d4
[<00000000efc298a1>] platform_probe+0x68/0xd8
[<00000000110be6fe>] really_probe+0x110/0x27c
[<00000000e245c0ae>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x12c
[<00000000f61f6f5e>] driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x118
[<00000000a7874938>] __device_attach_driver+0xb8/0xf8
[<0000000065319e69>] bus_for_each_drv+0x84/0xe4
[<00000000db3eb243>] __device_attach+0xfc/0x18c
[<0000000072e4e1a4>] device_initial_probe+0x14/0x20

Signed-off-by: Xiaolei Wang <xiaolei.wang@windriver.com>
---
drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
index 74299af1d7f1..c489bd15ee91 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/imx_rproc.c
@@ -595,6 +595,19 @@ static int imx_rproc_prepare(struct rproc *rproc)
return 0;
}

+static int imx_rproc_unprepare(struct rproc *rproc)
+{
+ struct rproc_mem_entry *entry, *tmp;
+
+ rproc_coredump_cleanup(rproc);
+ /* clean up carveout allocations */
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, tmp, &rproc->carveouts, node) {
+ list_del(&entry->node);
+ kfree(entry);
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int imx_rproc_parse_fw(struct rproc *rproc, const struct firmware *fw)
{
int ret;
@@ -675,6 +688,7 @@ imx_rproc_elf_find_loaded_rsc_table(struct rproc *rproc, const struct firmware *

static const struct rproc_ops imx_rproc_ops = {
.prepare = imx_rproc_prepare,
+ .unprepare = imx_rproc_unprepare,
.attach = imx_rproc_attach,
.detach = imx_rproc_detach,
.start = imx_rproc_start,
--
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