[PATCH] drm/nouveau: Fix memory leaks in debugfs and hwmon init error paths

From: liupeng

Date: Mon Aug 24 2026 - 05:05:42 EST


In nouveau_debugfs_init(), if nvif_object_ctor() fails, the previously
allocated drm->debugfs is leaked because the function returns the
error code directly.

In nouveau_hwmon_init(), if hwmon_device_register_with_info() fails,
the allocated hwmon structure is leaked because the function returns
the error code directly.

Fix both by freeing the allocated memory and clearing the pointer on
the error paths.

Signed-off-by: liupeng <liupeng01@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_debugfs.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_hwmon.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_debugfs.c
index 47d5579c568d..88223931f382 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_debugfs.c
@@ -295,13 +295,22 @@ nouveau_drm_debugfs_init(struct drm_minor *minor)
int
nouveau_debugfs_init(struct nouveau_drm *drm)
{
+ int ret;
+
drm->debugfs = kzalloc_obj(*drm->debugfs);
if (!drm->debugfs)
return -ENOMEM;

- return nvif_object_ctor(&drm->client.device.object, "debugfsCtrl", 0,
- NVIF_CLASS_CONTROL, NULL, 0,
- &drm->debugfs->ctrl);
+ ret = nvif_object_ctor(&drm->client.device.object, "debugfsCtrl", 0,
+ NVIF_CLASS_CONTROL, NULL, 0,
+ &drm->debugfs->ctrl);
+ if (ret) {
+ kfree(drm->debugfs);
+ drm->debugfs = NULL;
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
}

void
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_hwmon.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_hwmon.c
index 726397ab035d..ffbe7f542ab0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_hwmon.c
@@ -697,6 +697,8 @@ nouveau_hwmon_init(struct drm_device *dev)
if (IS_ERR(hwmon_dev)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(hwmon_dev);
NV_ERROR(drm, "Unable to register hwmon device: %d\n", ret);
+ drm->hwmon = NULL;
+ kfree(hwmon);
return ret;
}

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