# \[PATCH\] video: goldfishfb: fix memory leak on driver remove

- From: Anton Vasilyev \<hidden\>
- Date: 2018-07-06 12:05:04 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2018/07/5326190
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/dri-devel/2018/07/5326190/t.md

```text
goldfish_fb_probe() allocates memory for fb, but goldfish_fb_remove() does
not have deallocation of fb, which leads to memory leak on probe/remove.

The patch adds deallocation into goldfish_fb_remove().

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Anton Vasilyev <redacted>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/goldfishfb.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/goldfishfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/goldfishfb.c
index 3b70044773b6..9fe7edf725c6 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/goldfishfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/goldfishfb.c
@@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ static int goldfish_fb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	dma_free_coherent(&pdev->dev, framesize, (void *)fb->fb.screen_base,
 						fb->fb.fix.smem_start);
 	iounmap(fb->reg_base);
+	kfree(fb);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.18.0

```