Re: [PATCH v1] media: tegra: vi: replace devm_kzalloc with kzalloc in probe

[Dan Carpenter]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 06:52:42AM +0000, Dharanitharan R wrote:
> Replace devm_kzalloc() (line 1881) with kzalloc() in tegra_vi_probe()
> since memory must be freed manually in error paths. Freed via kfree() in
> rpm_disable, as recommended in the file comment (line 1204).
> 

drivers/staging/media/tegra-video/vi.c
  1197  static int tegra_vi_channel_alloc(struct tegra_vi *vi, unsigned int port_num,
  1198                                    struct device_node *node, unsigned int lanes)
  1199  {
  1200          struct tegra_vi_channel *chan;
  1201          unsigned int i;
  1202  
  1203          /*
  1204           * Do not use devm_kzalloc as memory is freed immediately
  1205           * when device instance is unbound but application might still
  1206           * be holding the device node open. Channel memory allocated
  1207           * with kzalloc is freed during video device release callback.
  1208           */
  1209          chan = kzalloc(sizeof(*chan), GFP_KERNEL);
  1210          if (!chan)
  1211                  return -ENOMEM;
  1212  

The comment is specific to "chan".

Your patch introduces a number of memory leaks and it's not
correct.

regards,
dan carpenter