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

Markus Elfring Markus.Elfring at web.de
Mon Jan 12 06:46:01 PST 2026


> 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






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