This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
media: vidtv: Fix memory leak in remove
to the 5.14-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-vidtv-fix-memory-leak-in-remove.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 3f430e90ebf84103c960203e9ed1cb793dd1810a
Author: Evgeny Novikov <novikov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu May 27 11:26:24 2021 +0200
media: vidtv: Fix memory leak in remove
[ Upstream commit 76e21bb8be4f5f987f3006d197196fe6af63f656 ]
vidtv_bridge_remove() releases and cleans up everything except for dvb
itself. The patch adds this missed release.
Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
Signed-off-by: Evgeny Novikov <novikov@xxxxxxxxx>
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/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c b/drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c
index 75617709c8ce2..0f6d998d18dc0 100644
--- a/drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c
+++ b/drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c
@@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ static int vidtv_bridge_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
dvb_dmxdev_release(&dvb->dmx_dev);
dvb_dmx_release(&dvb->demux);
dvb_unregister_adapter(&dvb->adapter);
+ kfree(dvb);
dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Successfully removed vidtv\n");
return 0;
