This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: max9286: Fix memleak in max9286_v4l2_register() to the 5.15-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-max9286-fix-memleak-in-max9286_v4l2_register.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e0b2d9bb512ca8826eb93d3d35e212d29c57d13a Author: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Dec 6 14:05:55 2022 +0100 media: max9286: Fix memleak in max9286_v4l2_register() [ Upstream commit 8636c5fc7658c7c6299fb8b352d24ea4b9ba99e2 ] There is a kmemleak when testing the media/i2c/max9286.c with bpf mock device: kmemleak: 5 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) unreferenced object 0xffff88810defc400 (size 256): comm "python3", pid 278, jiffies 4294737563 (age 31.978s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 28 06 a7 0a 81 88 ff ff 00 fe 22 12 81 88 ff ff (........."..... 10 c4 ef 0d 81 88 ff ff 10 c4 ef 0d 81 88 ff ff ................ backtrace: [<00000000191de6a7>] __kmalloc_node+0x44/0x1b0 [<000000002f4912b7>] kvmalloc_node+0x34/0x180 [<0000000057dc4cae>] v4l2_ctrl_new+0x325/0x10f0 [videodev] [<0000000026030272>] v4l2_ctrl_new_std+0x16f/0x210 [videodev] [<00000000f0d9ea2f>] max9286_probe+0x76e/0xbff [max9286] [<00000000ea8f6455>] i2c_device_probe+0x28d/0x680 [<0000000087529af3>] really_probe+0x17c/0x3f0 [<00000000b08be526>] __driver_probe_device+0xe3/0x170 [<000000004382edea>] driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120 [<000000007bde528a>] __device_attach_driver+0xf7/0x150 [<000000009f9c6ab4>] bus_for_each_drv+0x114/0x180 [<00000000c8aaf588>] __device_attach+0x1e5/0x2d0 [<0000000041cc06b9>] bus_probe_device+0x126/0x140 [<000000002309860d>] device_add+0x810/0x1130 [<000000002827bf98>] i2c_new_client_device+0x359/0x4f0 [<00000000593bdc85>] of_i2c_register_device+0xf1/0x110 max9286_v4l2_register() calls v4l2_ctrl_new_std(), but won't free the created v412_ctrl when fwnode_graph_get_endpoint_by_id() failed, which causes the memleak. Call v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() to free the v412_ctrl. Fixes: 66d8c9d2422d ("media: i2c: Add MAX9286 driver") Signed-off-by: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/max9286.c b/drivers/media/i2c/max9286.c index ce943702ffe9c..b9513e93ac617 100644 --- a/drivers/media/i2c/max9286.c +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/max9286.c @@ -928,6 +928,7 @@ static int max9286_v4l2_register(struct max9286_priv *priv) err_put_node: fwnode_handle_put(ep); err_async: + v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(&priv->ctrls); max9286_v4l2_notifier_unregister(priv); return ret;