Re: [PATCH] nouveau/firmware: Add missing kfree() of nvkm_falcon_fw::boot

From: Lyude Paul
Date: Mon Nov 17 2025 - 18:04:20 EST


Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>

Will push in a moment, thanks!

On Mon, 2025-11-17 at 08:42 +0000, Nam Cao wrote:
> nvkm_falcon_fw::boot is allocated, but no one frees it. This causes a
> kmemleak warning.
>
> Make sure this data is deallocated.
>
> Fixes: 2541626cfb79 ("drm/nouveau/acr: use common falcon HS FW code for ACR FWs")
> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/falcon/fw.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/falcon/fw.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/falcon/fw.c
> index cac6d64ab67d..4e8b3f1c7e25 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/falcon/fw.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/falcon/fw.c
> @@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ nvkm_falcon_fw_dtor(struct nvkm_falcon_fw *fw)
> nvkm_memory_unref(&fw->inst);
> nvkm_falcon_fw_dtor_sigs(fw);
> nvkm_firmware_dtor(&fw->fw);
> + kfree(fw->boot);
> + fw->boot = NULL;
> }
>
> static const struct nvkm_firmware_func

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Cheers,
Lyude Paul (she/her)
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat

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