Re: drm/tinydrm: Fix memory leak in hx8357d_probe

From: Markus Elfring
Date: Mon Oct 28 2019 - 14:01:08 EST


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>> +free_dbidev:
>> + kfree(dbidev);
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> I became curious if there is a need for such a memory release at another place.

I have taken another look also at a related implementation detail.
Now I have realised that the desired clean-up should usually be achieved by
the callback function âmipi_dbi_releaseâ for this software module.
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.4-rc2/source/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dbi.c#L581
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mipi_dbi.c?id=0365fb6baeb1ebefbbdad9e3f48bab9b3ccb8df3#n581

Regards,
Markus