Hi Shailendra, Thank you for the patch. I think the subject line is incomplete. On Friday 11 Nov 2016 14:21:41 Shailendra Verma wrote: > From: "Shailendra Verma" <shailendra.v@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Fix to avoid possible memory leak if the decoder initialization > got failed.Free the allocated memory for file handle object > before return in case decoder initialization fails. > > Signed-off-by: Shailendra Verma <shailendra.capricorn@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/vpfe_video.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/vpfe_video.c > b/drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/vpfe_video.c index 8be9f85..80c2e25 > 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/vpfe_video.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/vpfe_video.c > @@ -423,6 +423,7 @@ static int vpfe_open(struct file *file) (Adding a bit of context here for review purpose) v4l2_fh_init(&handle->vfh, &video->video_dev); v4l2_fh_add(&handle->vfh); mutex_lock(&video->lock) > /* If decoder is not initialized. initialize it */ > if (!video->initialized && vpfe_update_pipe_state(video)) { > mutex_unlock(&video->lock); > + kfree(handle); This isn't enough. The v4l2_fh_init() and v4l2_fh_add() calls have side effects. The major one is adding vfh to the file handles' list in video_dev. If you just free the memory here you will get a crash pretty soon afterwards. > return -ENODEV; > } > /* Increment device users counter */ -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html