Re: [BUG] drm/vmwgfx: vmw_cmdbuf_alloc leaks ~103 MiB/day of unreclaimable slab via the fbdev damage worker

Ian Forbes <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 12:30:56 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.video.dri.devel
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On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 11:59 AM Дима Дьячков <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a reproducible, quantified kernel memory leak in vmwgfx on a headless
> VMware guest. It is attributed to a specific call site with slab_debug, and I
> have a clean causal test that stops it. I could not find this reported anywhere
> - I searched the dri-devel archives, the mainline and 6.12.y git logs, and the
> distro trackers.
>

Please recompile with KMEMLEAK and/or KASAN and share any output.

Ian,

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