The premature free in the error path is blocked by V4L refcounting, not USB refcounting. Thanks to Ben Hutchings for review. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Fixes: 50e704453553 ("media: usbtv: prevent double free in error case") --- drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c b/drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c index 5095c380b2c1..4a03c4d66314 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c @@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ static int usbtv_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, usbtv_audio_fail: /* we must not free at this point */ - usb_get_dev(usbtv->udev); + v4l2_device_get(&usbtv->v4l2_dev); + /* this will undo the v4l2_device_get() */ usbtv_video_free(usbtv); usbtv_video_fail: -- 2.13.6