[PATCH] Release efifb's colormap in efifb_destroy()

From: Peter Jones
Date: Thu Jul 25 2013 - 11:48:54 EST


This was found by Alexandra Kossovsky, who noted this traceback from
kmemleak:

> unreferenced object 0xffff880216fcfe00 (size 512):
> comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294895429 (age 1415.320s)
> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa ................
> 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff UUUUUUUU........
> backtrace:
> [<ffffffff813e415c>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x3e
> [<ffffffff8111c17f>]
> kmemleak_alloc_recursive.constprop.57+0x16/0x18
> [<ffffffff8111e63b>] __kmalloc+0xf9/0x144
> [<ffffffff8123d9cf>] fb_alloc_cmap_gfp+0x47/0xe1
> [<ffffffff8123da77>] fb_alloc_cmap+0xe/0x10
> [<ffffffff81aff40a>] efifb_probe+0x3e9/0x48f
> [<ffffffff812c566f>] platform_drv_probe+0x34/0x5e
> [<ffffffff812c3e6d>] driver_probe_device+0x98/0x1b4
> [<ffffffff812c3fd7>] __driver_attach+0x4e/0x6f
> [<ffffffff812c25bf>] bus_for_each_dev+0x57/0x8a
> [<ffffffff812c3984>] driver_attach+0x19/0x1b
> [<ffffffff812c362b>] bus_add_driver+0xde/0x201
> [<ffffffff812c453f>] driver_register+0x8c/0x110
> [<ffffffff812c510d>] platform_driver_register+0x41/0x43
> [<ffffffff812c5127>] platform_driver_probe+0x18/0x8a
> [<ffffffff81aff002>] efifb_init+0x276/0x295
---
drivers/video/efifb.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/video/efifb.c b/drivers/video/efifb.c
index 390b61b..1f3eab3 100644
--- a/drivers/video/efifb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/efifb.c
@@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ static void efifb_destroy(struct fb_info *info)
if (request_mem_succeeded)
release_mem_region(info->apertures->ranges[0].base,
info->apertures->ranges[0].size);
+ fb_dealloc_cmap(&info->cmap);
framebuffer_release(info);
}

--
1.8.3.1

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