This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: tw686x: Fix memory leak in tw686x_video_init to the 5.10-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-tw686x-fix-memory-leak-in-tw686x_video_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit acccb329b71b23496067a6f53641f708b818b582 Author: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 21 06:30:30 2022 +0100 media: tw686x: Fix memory leak in tw686x_video_init [ Upstream commit e0b212ec9d8177d6f7c404315293f6a085d6ee42 ] video_device_alloc() allocates memory for vdev, when video_register_device() fails, it doesn't release the memory and leads to memory leak, call video_device_release() to fix this. Fixes: 704a84ccdbf1 ("[media] media: Support Intersil/Techwell TW686x-based video capture cards") Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-video.c b/drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-video.c index 1ced2b0ddb24..55ed8851256f 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-video.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-video.c @@ -1283,8 +1283,10 @@ int tw686x_video_init(struct tw686x_dev *dev) video_set_drvdata(vdev, vc); err = video_register_device(vdev, VFL_TYPE_VIDEO, -1); - if (err < 0) + if (err < 0) { + video_device_release(vdev); goto error; + } vc->num = vdev->num; }