From: Claude Code Review Bot <claude-review@example.com>
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Subject: Claude review: accel: ethosu: Fix job submit error clean-up refcount underflows
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:57:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <review-patch1-20260218-ethos-fixes-v1-1-be3fa3ea9a30@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260218-ethos-fixes-v1-1-be3fa3ea9a30@kernel.org>
Patch Review
The commit message accurately describes the problem: when job submit fails before the job is queued (e.g. during GEM buffer bounds checks), calling `ethosu_job_put` leads to `ethosu_job_cleanup` which calls `pm_runtime_put_autosuspend` without a corresponding `pm_runtime_resume_and_get`. The fix correctly splits the cleanup into `ethosu_job_err_cleanup` (for pre-queue failures) and `ethosu_job_cleanup` (for post-queue teardown via kref).
However, there is a memory leak. `done_fence` is separately allocated:
> + ejob->done_fence = kzalloc(sizeof(*ejob->done_fence), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!ejob->done_fence) {
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + goto out_cleanup_job;
> + }
But `ethosu_job_err_cleanup` does not free it:
> +static void ethosu_job_err_cleanup(struct ethosu_job *job)
> +{
> + unsigned int i;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < job->region_cnt; i++)
> + drm_gem_object_put(job->region_bo[i]);
> +
> + drm_gem_object_put(job->cmd_bo);
> +
> + kfree(job);
> +}
Every error path through `out_cleanup_job` or `out_put_job` will leak the `done_fence` allocation. A `kfree(job->done_fence)` should be added to `ethosu_job_err_cleanup` before `kfree(job)`. (This was also leaked in the original code since `dma_fence_put` on a never-initialized fence doesn't actually free it, but this patch should fix it while it's restructuring the cleanup.)
A second concern is the `out_cleanup_job` label when reached from the `done_fence` allocation failure:
> out_cleanup_job:
> if (ret)
> drm_sched_job_cleanup(&ejob->base);
When `done_fence` allocation fails, we jump to `out_cleanup_job` and call `drm_sched_job_cleanup(&ejob->base)` even though `drm_sched_job_init` has not yet been called. The job was kzalloc'd so `ejob->base` is zeroed, but calling `drm_sched_job_cleanup` on an uninitialized scheduler job is at best relying on implementation details. This is a pre-existing issue not introduced by this patch, but it might be worth fixing while restructuring the error paths — perhaps by jumping to `out_put_job` instead.
The success path change looks correct:
> ret = ethosu_job_push(ejob);
> + if (!ret) {
> + ethosu_job_put(ejob);
> + return 0;
> + }
On success, `ethosu_job_push` has already called `pm_runtime_resume_and_get` and taken a kref, so `ethosu_job_put` drops the initial reference correctly.
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2026-02-18 22:21 [PATCH 0/3] accel: ethosu: Runtime PM refcounting and cmd stream validation fixes Rob Herring (Arm)
2026-02-18 22:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] accel: ethosu: Fix job submit error clean-up refcount underflows Rob Herring (Arm)
2026-02-18 23:57 ` Claude Code Review Bot [this message]
2026-02-18 22:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] accel: ethosu: Fix NPU_OP_ELEMENTWISE validation with scalar Rob Herring (Arm)
2026-02-18 23:57 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
2026-02-18 22:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] accel: ethosu: Handle possible underflow in IFM size calculations Rob Herring (Arm)
2026-02-18 23:57 ` Claude review: " Claude Code Review Bot
2026-02-18 23:57 ` Claude review: accel: ethosu: Runtime PM refcounting and cmd stream validation fixes Claude Code Review Bot
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