Re: [PATCH] fbdev: vt8500lcdfb: fix missing dma_free_coherent()

From: Markus Elfring

Date: Mon Jan 12 2026 - 09:46:07 EST


> fbi->fb.screen_buffer is alloced with dma_free_coherent() but is not

allocated with a dma_alloc_coherent() call?

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc4/source/drivers/video/fbdev/vt8500lcdfb.c#L352-L362


> freed if the error path is reached.

See also once more:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.19-rc4#n94


You should probably not only specify message recipients in the header field “Cc”.

Regards,
Markus