This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
media: firewire: 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:
media-firewire-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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 6870ca13558068d29baf554c583b48ecb8880d59
Author: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun Sep 20 11:01:37 2020 +0200
media: firewire: fix memory leak
[ Upstream commit b28e32798c78a346788d412f1958f36bb760ec03 ]
Fix memory leak in node_probe.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-fw.c b/drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-fw.c
index 5d634706a7eaa..382f290c3f4d5 100644
--- a/drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-fw.c
+++ b/drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-fw.c
@@ -271,8 +271,10 @@ static int node_probe(struct fw_unit *unit, const struct ieee1394_device_id *id)
name_len = fw_csr_string(unit->directory, CSR_MODEL,
name, sizeof(name));
- if (name_len < 0)
- return name_len;
+ if (name_len < 0) {
+ err = name_len;
+ goto fail_free;
+ }
for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(model_names); --i; )
if (strlen(model_names[i]) <= name_len &&
strncmp(name, model_names[i], name_len) == 0)
