This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: solo6x10: fix possible memory leak in solo_sysfs_init() to the 4.9-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-solo6x10-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-solo_sysf.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 5a2991d4c8f4be815d20ab419a639b5201b5c0d0 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 10 16:24:23 2022 +0800 media: solo6x10: fix possible memory leak in solo_sysfs_init() [ Upstream commit 7f5866dd96d95b74e439f6ee17b8abd8195179fb ] If device_register() returns error in solo_sysfs_init(), the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(). Fixes: dcae5dacbce5 ("[media] solo6x10: sync to latest code from Bluecherry's git repo") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/solo6x10/solo6x10-core.c b/drivers/media/pci/solo6x10/solo6x10-core.c index f50d07229236..fc45d4aeb77e 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/solo6x10/solo6x10-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/solo6x10/solo6x10-core.c @@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ static int solo_sysfs_init(struct solo_dev *solo_dev) solo_dev->nr_chans); if (device_register(dev)) { + put_device(dev); dev->parent = NULL; return -ENOMEM; }