[PATCH v2 3/4] media: imx8-isi: fix isi->pipes memory leak in probe and remove
Laurent Pinchart
laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Wed May 6 05:41:09 PDT 2026
Hello Xiaolei,
Thank you for the patch.
On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 11:12:09AM +0800, Xiaolei Wang wrote:
> mxc_isi_probe() allocates isi->pipes with kzalloc_objs() but never
> frees it on any probe failure path or in mxc_isi_remove(), leaking
> the allocation on every failed probe and every normal unbind.
>
> Fix this by switching from kzalloc_objs() to devm_kcalloc(), which
> ties the allocation lifetime to the device and eliminates the need
> for explicit kfree() in all error paths and in mxc_isi_remove().
There's ongoing work to add a devm_kzalloc_objs(), to I'd rather not
revert to kcalloc. If you want to fix this leak now without waiting for
devm_kzalloc_objs(), I would prefer adding kfree() in error paths and in
mxc_isi_remove().
> Fixes: cf21f328fcaf ("media: nxp: Add i.MX8 ISI driver")
> Signed-off-by: Xiaolei Wang <xiaolei.wang at windriver.com>
> ---
> drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx8-isi/imx8-isi-core.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx8-isi/imx8-isi-core.c b/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx8-isi/imx8-isi-core.c
> index 2d639b789910..2b76fb9c18f6 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx8-isi/imx8-isi-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx8-isi/imx8-isi-core.c
> @@ -485,7 +485,8 @@ static int mxc_isi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> isi->pdata = of_device_get_match_data(dev);
>
> - isi->pipes = kzalloc_objs(isi->pipes[0], isi->pdata->num_channels);
> + isi->pipes = devm_kcalloc(dev, isi->pdata->num_channels,
> + sizeof(*isi->pipes), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!isi->pipes)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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