This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: meson: vdec: fix possible refcount leak in vdec_probe() to the 6.0-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-meson-vdec-fix-possible-refcount-leak-in-vdec_.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 5dedee1f5991bb90367162f034d8d06e7ba4689b Author: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Sep 6 09:46:30 2022 +0200 media: meson: vdec: fix possible refcount leak in vdec_probe() [ Upstream commit 7718999356234d9cc6a11b4641bb773928f1390f ] v4l2_device_unregister need to be called to put the refcount got by v4l2_device_register when vdec_probe fails or vdec_remove is called. Signed-off-by: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@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/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c index 8549d95be0f2..52f224d8def1 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c +++ b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c @@ -1102,6 +1102,7 @@ static int vdec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) err_vdev_release: video_device_release(vdev); + v4l2_device_unregister(&core->v4l2_dev); return ret; } @@ -1110,6 +1111,7 @@ static int vdec_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) struct amvdec_core *core = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); video_unregister_device(core->vdev_dec); + v4l2_device_unregister(&core->v4l2_dev); return 0; }