This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
media: dib8000: Fix a memleak in dib8000_init()
to the 5.4-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-dib8000-fix-a-memleak-in-dib8000_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 1de5be17abc774b7b57f3f8dd02c3b12cdfd936a
Author: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Nov 30 16:38:05 2021 +0100
media: dib8000: Fix a memleak in dib8000_init()
[ Upstream commit 8dbdcc7269a83305ee9d677b75064d3530a48ee2 ]
In dib8000_init(), the variable fe is not freed or passed out on the
failure of dib8000_identify(&state->i2c), which could lead to a memleak.
Fix this bug by adding a kfree of fe in the error path.
This bug was found by a static analyzer. The analysis employs
differential checking to identify inconsistent security operations
(e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths and confirms that the
inconsistent operations are not recovered in the current function or
the callers, so they constitute bugs.
Note that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false
positive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed
the bug.
Builds with CONFIG_DVB_DIB8000=m show no new warnings,
and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.
Fixes: 77e2c0f5d471 ("V4L/DVB (12900): DiB8000: added support for DiBcom ISDB-T/ISDB-Tsb demodulator DiB8000")
Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@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/dvb-frontends/dib8000.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib8000.c
index bb02354a48b81..d67f2dd997d06 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib8000.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/dib8000.c
@@ -4473,8 +4473,10 @@ static struct dvb_frontend *dib8000_init(struct i2c_adapter *i2c_adap, u8 i2c_ad
state->timf_default = cfg->pll->timf;
- if (dib8000_identify(&state->i2c) == 0)
+ if (dib8000_identify(&state->i2c) == 0) {
+ kfree(fe);
goto error;
+ }
dibx000_init_i2c_master(&state->i2c_master, DIB8000, state->i2c.adap, state->i2c.addr);
