This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
media: dvbdev: Fix memory leak in dvb_media_device_free()
to the 4.9-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-dvbdev-fix-memory-leak-in-dvb_media_device_free.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From bf9a40ae8d722f281a2721779595d6df1c33a0bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 09:30:39 +0100
Subject: media: dvbdev: Fix memory leak in dvb_media_device_free()
From: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
commit bf9a40ae8d722f281a2721779595d6df1c33a0bf upstream.
dvb_media_device_free() is leaking memory. Free `dvbdev->adapter->conn`
before setting it to NULL, as documented in include/media/media-device.h:
"The media_entity instance itself must be freed explicitly by the driver
if required."
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=9bbe4b842c98f0ed05c5eed77a226e9de33bf298
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20201211083039.521617-1-yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 0230d60e4661 ("[media] dvbdev: Add RF connector if needed")
Reported-by: syzbot+7f09440acc069a0d38ac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ static void dvb_media_device_free(struct
if (dvbdev->adapter->conn) {
media_device_unregister_entity(dvbdev->adapter->conn);
+ kfree(dvbdev->adapter->conn);
dvbdev->adapter->conn = NULL;
kfree(dvbdev->adapter->conn_pads);
dvbdev->adapter->conn_pads = NULL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/media-dvbdev-fix-memory-leak-in-dvb_media_device_free.patch
