* Patch "bt8xx: fix memory leak" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
@ 2017-11-06 9:25 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2017-11-06 9:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sudipm.mukherjee, alexander.levin, gregkh, hans.verkuil, mchehab,
sudip.mukherjee
Cc: stable, stable-commits
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bt8xx: fix memory leak
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
bt8xx-fix-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Nov 6 10:22:56 CET 2017
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:37:49 +0000
Subject: bt8xx: fix memory leak
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit 6792eb0cf9310ec240b7e7c9bfa86dff4c758c68 ]
If dvb_attach() fails then we were just printing an error message and
exiting but the memory allocated to state was not released.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
@@ -680,6 +680,7 @@ static void frontend_init(struct dvb_bt8
/* DST is not a frontend, attaching the ASIC */
if (dvb_attach(dst_attach, state, &card->dvb_adapter) == NULL) {
pr_err("%s: Could not find a Twinhan DST\n", __func__);
+ kfree(state);
break;
}
/* Attach other DST peripherals if any */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com are
queue-4.4/bt8xx-fix-memory-leak.patch
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