[PATCH] drm/nouveau: Fix gem reference leak in validate_init()
From: Wentao Liang
Date: Wed Sep 16 2026 - 14:11:34 EST
On the ttm_bo_reserve() failure and "vma not found" error paths, the
loop breaks without adding the looked-up object to any validate list,
so the reference taken by drm_gem_object_lookup() is never released;
validate_fini() only walks the spliced lists. Drop the reference
before breaking out on both paths.
Fixes: 19ca10d82e33bcfe ("drm/nouveau/gem: lookup VMAs for buffers referenced by pushbuf ioctl")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
index 20dba02d6175..c2601b559947 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c
@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ validate_init(struct nouveau_channel *chan, struct drm_file *file_priv,
if (unlikely(ret)) {
if (ret != -ERESTARTSYS)
NV_PRINTK(err, cli, "fail reserve\n");
+ drm_gem_object_put(gem);
break;
}
}
@@ -522,6 +523,7 @@ validate_init(struct nouveau_channel *chan, struct drm_file *file_priv,
struct nouveau_vma *vma = nouveau_vma_find(nvbo, vmm);
if (!vma) {
NV_PRINTK(err, cli, "vma not found!\n");
+ drm_gem_object_put(gem);
ret = -EINVAL;
break;
}
--
2.34.1