This patch fixes a memory leak which occurs when an em28xx card with DVB
extension is unplugged or its DVB extension driver is unloaded. In
dvb_fini(), dev->dvb must be freed before being set to NULL, as is done
in dvb_init() in case of error.
Signed-off-by: Francesco Lavra <francescolavra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
NOTE: this patch has already reached linux-next, but has not been
requested to be pulled for 2.6.33, as it should.
--- a/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c 2009-12-31 12:23:53.000000000 +0100
+++ b/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c 2009-12-31 12:23:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -606,6 +606,7 @@ static int dvb_fini(struct em28xx *dev)
if (dev->dvb) {
unregister_dvb(dev->dvb);
+ kfree(dev->dvb);
dev->dvb = NULL;
}
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