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Thu, 21 May 2026 00:35:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Anand Moon To: Neil Armstrong , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kevin Hilman , Jerome Brunet , Martin Blumenstingl , Hans Verkuil , Maxime Jourdan , linux-media@vger.kernel.org (open list:MESON VIDEO DECODER DRIVER FOR AMLOGIC SOCS), linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org (open list:MESON VIDEO DECODER DRIVER FOR AMLOGIC SOCS), linux-staging@lists.linux.dev (open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM), linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated list:ARM/Amlogic Meson SoC support), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list) Cc: Anand Moon , Nicolas Dufresne , Sashiko Subject: [PATCH v4 1/3] media: meson: vdec: Fix memory leak in error path of vdec_open Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 13:04:11 +0530 Message-ID: <20260521073449.10057-2-linux.amoon@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.50.1 In-Reply-To: <20260521073449.10057-1-linux.amoon@gmail.com> References: <20260521073449.10057-1-linux.amoon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The vdec_open() function previously jumped directly to err_m2m_release when vdec_init_ctrls() failed, skipping release of the m2m context. This caused a resource leak. Fix it by introducing a proper err_m2m_ctx_release label that calls v4l2_m2m_ctx_release(sess->m2m_ctx) before releasing the m2m device. Also free the v4l2 control handler memory allocated by vdec_init_ctrls() in vdec_close(). This was identified via kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff0000205d6878 (size 8): comm "v4l_id", pid 5289, jiffies 4294938580 hex dump (first 8 bytes): 40 d2 49 18 00 00 ff ff @.I..... backtrace (crc d3204599): kmemleak_alloc+0xc8/0xf0 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x60c/0x850 v4l2_ctrl_handler_init_class+0x1b4/0x2e8 [videodev] vdec_open+0x1f4/0x788 [meson_vdec] v4l2_open+0x144/0x460 [videodev] chrdev_open+0x1ac/0x500 do_dentry_open+0x3f0/0xfe8 vfs_open+0x68/0x320 do_open+0x2d8/0x9a8 path_openat+0x1d0/0x4f0 do_filp_open+0x190/0x380 do_sys_openat2+0xf8/0x1b0 __arm64_sys_openat+0x13c/0x1e8 invoke_syscall+0xdc/0x268 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x178/0x258 do_el0_svc+0x4c/0x70 Cc: Nicolas Dufresne Reported-by: Sashiko Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260520045905.6ACBA1F000E9@smtp.kernel.org/#t Fixes: 3e7f51bd9607 ("media: meson: add v4l2 m2m video decoder driver") Signed-off-by: Anand Moon --- v4: update the commit message to add v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() in vdec_close() to adderss the issue: This isn't a bug introduced by this patch, but does vdec_close() properly free the v4l2 control handler memory allocated by vdec_init_ctrls() here? v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260520044046.7553-1-linux.amoon@gmail.com/ update the commit messagee. v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260321065408.209723-1-linux.amoon@gmail.com/ updated the commit message, applied the suggestion from sashiko below. [3] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260321065408.209723-1-linux.amoon%40gmail.com v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260304100557.126488-1-linux.amoon@gmail.com/ tried to address the issue reported by Nicolas improve the commit message. --- drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c index 4b77ec1af5a7..9244fb09eb36 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c +++ b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c @@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ static int vdec_open(struct file *file) ret = vdec_init_ctrls(sess); if (ret) - goto err_m2m_release; + goto err_m2m_ctx_release; sess->pixfmt_cap = formats[0].pixfmts_cap[0]; sess->fmt_out = &formats[0]; @@ -913,6 +913,8 @@ static int vdec_open(struct file *file) return 0; +err_m2m_ctx_release: + v4l2_m2m_ctx_release(sess->m2m_ctx); err_m2m_release: v4l2_m2m_release(sess->m2m_dev); err_free_sess: @@ -926,6 +928,7 @@ static int vdec_close(struct file *file) v4l2_m2m_ctx_release(sess->m2m_ctx); v4l2_m2m_release(sess->m2m_dev); + v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(&sess->ctrl_handler); v4l2_fh_del(&sess->fh, file); v4l2_fh_exit(&sess->fh); -- 2.50.1