This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: dvb-frontends: fix leak of memory fw 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-dvb-frontends-fix-leak-of-memory-fw.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 2b5b88525127cd7e3da295642c4815657296dff6 Author: Yan Lei <yan_lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Apr 10 07:19:25 2022 +0100 media: dvb-frontends: fix leak of memory fw [ Upstream commit a15fe8d9f1bf460a804bcf18a890bfd2cf0d5caa ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20220410061925.4107-1-chinayanlei2002@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yan Lei <yan_lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/bcm3510.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/bcm3510.c index bb698839e477..fc1dbdfb0cba 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/bcm3510.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/bcm3510.c @@ -648,6 +648,7 @@ static int bcm3510_download_firmware(struct dvb_frontend* fe) deb_info("firmware chunk, addr: 0x%04x, len: 0x%04x, total length: 0x%04zx\n",addr,len,fw->size); if ((ret = bcm3510_write_ram(st,addr,&b[i+4],len)) < 0) { err("firmware download failed: %d\n",ret); + release_firmware(fw); return ret; } i += 4 + len;