Re: [PATCH] staging: media: tegra-video: fix syncpoint leak in tegra20 channel init

On Sun Jul 26, 2026 at 12:04 PM CEST, Cong Nguyen wrote:
> tegra20_channel_host1x_syncpt_init() requests two host1x syncpoints. It
> stored the first one (mw ack) into chan->mw_ack_sp[0] and only then
> requested the second one (frame start). If the second request failed the
> function returned without releasing the first syncpoint, leaking it: the
> caller tegra_channel_init() bails out with a bare "return ret" on a
> syncpt init failure and does not run its free_syncpts error path (that
> path only covers failures after syncpoint init has fully succeeded), and
> the channel is subsequently torn down via the kfree()-only path, so
> nothing ever releases the orphaned syncpoint.
>
> Release the already-acquired syncpoint on the error path, and only
> publish the syncpoints into the channel once both have been successfully
> requested, so chan->mw_ack_sp[0] never holds a released handle. This
> matches the handling in tegra210_channel_host1x_syncpt_init().
>
> Fixes: 0e2c4117c351 ("staging: media: tegra-video: add CSI support for Tegra20 and Tegra30")
> Signed-off-by: Cong Nguyen <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <[email protected]>

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