From 0035fe00f77d2b0a1a2d001f7442136d1ec5aefa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:07:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fbcon: don't use vc_resize() on initialization Catalin and kmemleak spotted a leak of a VC screen buffer in vc_allocate() due to the following chain of events: vc_allocate() visual_init(init=1) vc->vc_sw->con_init(init=1) fbcon_init() vc_resize() vc->screen_buf = kmalloc() vc->screen_buf = kmalloc() The common way for the VC drivers is to set the screen dimension parameters manually in the init case and only call vc_resize() for !init - which allocates a screen buffer according to the new dimensions. fbcon instead would do vc_resize() unconditionally and afterwards set the dimensions manually (again) for !init - i.e. completely upside down. The vc_resize() allocated buffer would then get lost by vc_allocate() allocating a fresh one. Use vc_resize() only for actual resizing to close the leak. Set the dimensions manually only in initialization mode to remove the redundant setting in resize mode. The kmemleak trace from Catalin: unreferenced object 0xde158000 (size 12288): comm "Xorg", pid 1439, jiffies 4294961016 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 . . . . . . . . 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 . . . . . . . . backtrace: [] __save_stack_trace+0x17/0x1c [] create_object+0xcd/0x188 [] kmemleak_alloc+0x1b/0x3c [] __kmalloc+0xdb/0xe8 [] vc_do_resize+0x73/0x1e0 [] vc_resize+0x15/0x18 [] fbcon_init+0x1f9/0x2b8 [] visual_init+0x9f/0xdc [] vc_allocate+0x7f/0xfc [] con_open+0x17/0x80 [] tty_open+0x1f7/0x2e4 [] chrdev_open+0x101/0x118 [] __dentry_open+0x105/0x1cc [] nameidata_to_filp+0x2d/0x38 [] do_filp_open+0x2c1/0x54c [] do_sys_open+0x3b/0xb4 Reported-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Tested-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Krzysztof Helt Tested-by: Dave Young Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c index 471a9a60376..3a44695b9c0 100644 --- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c +++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c @@ -1082,7 +1082,6 @@ static void fbcon_init(struct vc_data *vc, int init) new_rows = FBCON_SWAP(ops->rotate, info->var.yres, info->var.xres); new_cols /= vc->vc_font.width; new_rows /= vc->vc_font.height; - vc_resize(vc, new_cols, new_rows); /* * We must always set the mode. The mode of the previous console @@ -1111,10 +1110,11 @@ static void fbcon_init(struct vc_data *vc, int init) * vc_{cols,rows}, but we must not set those if we are only * resizing the console. */ - if (!init) { + if (init) { vc->vc_cols = new_cols; vc->vc_rows = new_rows; - } + } else + vc_resize(vc, new_cols, new_rows); if (logo) fbcon_prepare_logo(vc, info, cols, rows, new_cols, new_rows); -- 2.32.0.93.g670b81a890