This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ALSA: ac97: fix possible memory leak in snd_ac97_dev_register()
to the 4.14-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:
alsa-ac97-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-snd_ac97_dev_r.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 4383121fa7d382d7934d1d9d9166e044599033c8
Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 19 17:30:25 2022 +0800
ALSA: ac97: fix possible memory leak in snd_ac97_dev_register()
[ Upstream commit 4881bda5ea05c8c240fc8afeaa928e2bc43f61fa ]
If device_register() fails in snd_ac97_dev_register(), it should
call put_device() to give up reference, or the name allocated in
dev_set_name() is leaked.
Fixes: 0ca06a00e206 ("[ALSA] AC97 bus interface for ad-hoc drivers")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221019093025.1179475-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c b/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c
index 1cb2a1ecf3cf..d5dfc7349e70 100644
--- a/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c
+++ b/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c
@@ -1965,6 +1965,7 @@ static int snd_ac97_dev_register(struct snd_device *device)
snd_ac97_get_short_name(ac97));
if ((err = device_register(&ac97->dev)) < 0) {
ac97_err(ac97, "Can't register ac97 bus\n");
+ put_device(&ac97->dev);
ac97->dev.bus = NULL;
return err;
}
