[PATCH] staging: media: tegra-video: fix syncpoint leak in tegra20 channel init

From: Cong Nguyen

Date: Sun Jul 26 2026 - 06:04:49 EST


tegra20_channel_host1x_syncpt_init() requests two host1x syncpoints. It
stored the first one (mw ack) into chan->mw_ack_sp[0] and only then
requested the second one (frame start). If the second request failed the
function returned without releasing the first syncpoint, leaking it: the
caller tegra_channel_init() bails out with a bare "return ret" on a
syncpt init failure and does not run its free_syncpts error path (that
path only covers failures after syncpoint init has fully succeeded), and
the channel is subsequently torn down via the kfree()-only path, so
nothing ever releases the orphaned syncpoint.

Release the already-acquired syncpoint on the error path, and only
publish the syncpoints into the channel once both have been successfully
requested, so chan->mw_ack_sp[0] never holds a released handle. This
matches the handling in tegra210_channel_host1x_syncpt_init().

Fixes: 0e2c4117c351 ("staging: media: tegra-video: add CSI support for Tegra20 and Tegra30")
Signed-off-by: Cong Nguyen <congnt264@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/media/tegra-video/tegra20.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/tegra-video/tegra20.c b/drivers/staging/media/tegra-video/tegra20.c
index e513e6ccb776..f8acb6834a0b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/tegra-video/tegra20.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/tegra-video/tegra20.c
@@ -429,12 +429,13 @@ static int tegra20_channel_host1x_syncpt_init(struct tegra_vi_channel *chan)
if (!out_sp)
return dev_err_probe(vi->dev, -EBUSY, "failed to request mw ack syncpoint\n");

- chan->mw_ack_sp[0] = out_sp;
-
fs_sp = host1x_syncpt_request(&vi->client, HOST1X_SYNCPT_CLIENT_MANAGED);
- if (!fs_sp)
+ if (!fs_sp) {
+ host1x_syncpt_put(out_sp);
return dev_err_probe(vi->dev, -EBUSY, "failed to request frame start syncpoint\n");
+ }

+ chan->mw_ack_sp[0] = out_sp;
chan->frame_start_sp[0] = fs_sp;

return 0;
--
2.25.1