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Commit 73ce73c3 authored by Thomas Zimmermann's avatar Thomas Zimmermann
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fbdev: Transfer video= option strings to caller; clarify ownership



In fb_get_options(), always duplicate the returned option string and
transfer ownership of the memory to the function's caller.

Until now, only the global option string got duplicated and transferred
to the caller; the per-driver options were owned by fb_get_options().
In the end, it was impossible for the function's caller to detect if
it had to release the string's memory buffer. Hence, all calling drivers
leak the memory buffer. The leaks have existed ever since, but drivers
only call fb_get_option() once as part of module initialization. So the
amount of leaked memory is not significant.

Fix the semantics of fb_get_option() by unconditionally transferring
ownership of the memory buffer to the caller. Later patches can resolve
the memory leaks in the fbdev drivers.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJavier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230209135509.7786-3-tzimmermann@suse.de
parent c88b946a
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