Nouveau - Aug 2025 - [PATCH v2] drm/nouveau/gsp: fix mismatched alloc/free for kvmalloc()

Replace kfree() with kvfree() for memory allocated by kvmalloc().

Compile-tested only.

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8a8b1ec5261f ("drm/nouveau/gsp: split rpc handling out on its
own")
Signed-off-by: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng at vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Timur Tabi <ttabi at nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Zhi Wang <zhiw at nvidia.com>
---
v2: Add a Fixes: tag.
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/rm/r535/rpc.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/rm/r535/rpc.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/rm/r535/rpc.c
index 9d06ff722fea..0dc4782df8c0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/rm/r535/rpc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/rm/r535/rpc.c
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ r535_gsp_msgq_recv(struct nvkm_gsp *gsp, u32 gsp_rpc_len,
int *retries)
 
 		rpc = r535_gsp_msgq_peek(gsp, sizeof(*rpc), info.retries);
 		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(rpc)) {
-			kfree(buf);
+			kvfree(buf);
 			return rpc;
 		}
 
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ r535_gsp_msgq_recv(struct nvkm_gsp *gsp, u32 gsp_rpc_len,
int *retries)
 
 		rpc = r535_gsp_msgq_recv_one_elem(gsp, &info);
 		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(rpc)) {
-			kfree(buf);
+			kvfree(buf);
 			return rpc;
 		}
 
-- 
2.34.1

> Replace kfree() with kvfree() for memory allocated by kvmalloc().
* Would you like to improve the exception handling by using another goto chain?

* How do you think about to increase the application of scope-based resource
management?
  https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.16/source/include/linux/slab.h#L1081


Is there a need to adjust also the following statement combination?
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.16/source/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/gsp/rm/r535/rpc.c#L312-L314

?
		kvfree(info.gsp_rpc_buf);
		info.gsp_rpc_buf = NULL;
		return buf;
?


Regards,
Markus

On 8/13/25 2:54 PM, Qianfeng Rong wrote:
> Replace kfree() with kvfree() for memory allocated by kvmalloc().
> 
> Compile-tested only.
> 
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 8a8b1ec5261f ("drm/nouveau/gsp: split rpc handling out on its
own")
> Signed-off-by: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng at vivo.com>
> Reviewed-by: Timur Tabi <ttabi at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Zhi Wang <zhiw at nvidia.com>
Applied to drm-misc-fixes, thanks!