Re: [PATCH v2] media: mediatek: vcodec: free working buf on error path in vdec_vp9_slice_setup_lat()

From: Nicolas Dufresne

Date: Fri May 01 2026 - 14:43:35 EST


Le mercredi 29 avril 2026 à 14:52 +0800, Haoxiang Li a écrit :
> Add an error path label in vdec_vp9_slice_setup_lat()
> and call vdec_vp9_slice_free_working_buffer() to free
> working buffer to prevent potential memory leak.
>
> Fixes: 5d418351ca8f ("media: mediatek: vcodec: support stateless VP9 decoding")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>  - Remove two functions' return value check and error
>    code, since these never fails. Thanks, Nicolas!
> ---
>  .../vcodec/decoder/vdec/vdec_vp9_req_lat_if.c        | 12 +++++-------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/decoder/vdec/vdec_vp9_req_lat_if.c b/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/decoder/vdec/vdec_vp9_req_lat_if.c
> index cd1935014d76..5a424d738fed 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/decoder/vdec/vdec_vp9_req_lat_if.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vcodec/decoder/vdec/vdec_vp9_req_lat_if.c
> @@ -1166,24 +1166,22 @@ static int vdec_vp9_slice_setup_lat(struct vdec_vp9_slice_instance *instance,
>   if (ret)
>   goto err;
>  
> - ret = vdec_vp9_slice_setup_lat_buffer(instance, vsi, bs, lat_buf);
> - if (ret)
> - goto err;
> + vdec_vp9_slice_setup_lat_buffer(instance, vsi, bs, lat_buf);

You forgot one essential step, which is to remove the return 0 and fix the
signature of vdec_vp9_slice_setup_lat_buffer(). Otherwise someone somewhere
these days will add it back base on static analyzes.

Nicolas

>  
>   vdec_vp9_slice_setup_seg_buffer(instance, vsi, &instance->seg[0]);
>  
>   /* setup prob/tile buffers for LAT */
>  
> - ret = vdec_vp9_slice_setup_prob_buffer(instance, vsi);
> - if (ret)
> - goto err;
> + vdec_vp9_slice_setup_prob_buffer(instance, vsi);
>  
>   ret = vdec_vp9_slice_setup_tile_buffer(instance, vsi, bs);
>   if (ret)
> - goto err;
> + goto alloc_err;
>  
>   return 0;
>  
> +alloc_err:
> + vdec_vp9_slice_free_working_buffer(instance);
>  err:
>   return ret;
>  }

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