This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: ov5640: Fix a memory leak when ov5640_probe fails to the 6.1-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-ov5640-fix-a-memory-leak-when-ov5640_probe-fai.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3e1789720fc6e570689249b891db9fd64c3e339c Author: Xiaolei Wang <xiaolei.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Aug 7 17:05:35 2023 +0800 media: ov5640: Fix a memory leak when ov5640_probe fails [ Upstream commit 20290feaaeb76cc719921aad275ccb18662a7c3a ] sensor->ctrls.handler is initialized in ov5640_init_controls(), so when the sensor is not connected and ov5640_sensor_resume() fails, sensor->ctrls.handler should be released, otherwise a memory leak will be detected: unreferenced object 0xc674ca80 (size 64): comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294938337 (age 204.880s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 80 55 75 c6 80 54 75 c6 00 55 75 c6 80 52 75 c6 .Uu..Tu..Uu..Ru. 00 53 75 c6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .Su.......... Fixes: 85644a9b37ec ("media: ov5640: Use runtime PM") Signed-off-by: Xiaolei Wang <xiaolei.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ov5640.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ov5640.c index aa9e5a99fc536..e0019668a8f86 100644 --- a/drivers/media/i2c/ov5640.c +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov5640.c @@ -3909,7 +3909,7 @@ static int ov5640_probe(struct i2c_client *client) ret = ov5640_sensor_resume(dev); if (ret) { dev_err(dev, "failed to power on\n"); - goto entity_cleanup; + goto free_ctrls; } pm_runtime_set_active(dev); @@ -3933,8 +3933,9 @@ static int ov5640_probe(struct i2c_client *client) err_pm_runtime: pm_runtime_put_noidle(dev); pm_runtime_disable(dev); - v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(&sensor->ctrls.handler); ov5640_sensor_suspend(dev); +free_ctrls: + v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(&sensor->ctrls.handler); entity_cleanup: media_entity_cleanup(&sensor->sd.entity); mutex_destroy(&sensor->lock);