This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: pci: cx23885: fix error handling for cx23885 ATSC boards 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-pci-cx23885-fix-error-handling-for-cx23885-ats.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 55c567880526cc5fa6665964ebf3db830aa2ed17 Author: Nikolay Burykin <burikin@xxxxxx> Date: Tue Jan 10 10:09:00 2023 +0100 media: pci: cx23885: fix error handling for cx23885 ATSC boards [ Upstream commit 4aaa96b59df5fac41ba891969df6b092061ea9d7 ] After having been assigned to NULL value at cx23885-dvb.c:1202, pointer '0' is dereferenced at cx23885-dvb.c:2469. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Burykin <burikin@xxxxxx> 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/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-dvb.c b/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-dvb.c index 45c2f4afceb82..9b437faf2c3f6 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-dvb.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-dvb.c @@ -2459,16 +2459,10 @@ static int dvb_register(struct cx23885_tsport *port) request_module("%s", info.type); client_tuner = i2c_new_client_device(&dev->i2c_bus[1].i2c_adap, &info); if (!i2c_client_has_driver(client_tuner)) { - module_put(client_demod->dev.driver->owner); - i2c_unregister_device(client_demod); - port->i2c_client_demod = NULL; goto frontend_detach; } if (!try_module_get(client_tuner->dev.driver->owner)) { i2c_unregister_device(client_tuner); - module_put(client_demod->dev.driver->owner); - i2c_unregister_device(client_demod); - port->i2c_client_demod = NULL; goto frontend_detach; } port->i2c_client_tuner = client_tuner; @@ -2505,16 +2499,10 @@ static int dvb_register(struct cx23885_tsport *port) request_module("%s", info.type); client_tuner = i2c_new_client_device(&dev->i2c_bus[1].i2c_adap, &info); if (!i2c_client_has_driver(client_tuner)) { - module_put(client_demod->dev.driver->owner); - i2c_unregister_device(client_demod); - port->i2c_client_demod = NULL; goto frontend_detach; } if (!try_module_get(client_tuner->dev.driver->owner)) { i2c_unregister_device(client_tuner); - module_put(client_demod->dev.driver->owner); - i2c_unregister_device(client_demod); - port->i2c_client_demod = NULL; goto frontend_detach; } port->i2c_client_tuner = client_tuner;