This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: v4l2-mem2mem: fix a memleak in v4l2_m2m_register_entity to the 5.4-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-v4l2-mem2mem-fix-a-memleak-in-v4l2_m2m_registe.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 5b579421ac30c851a73a25a498b9676842fc9c32 Author: Zhipeng Lu <alexious@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 1 20:48:44 2024 +0800 media: v4l2-mem2mem: fix a memleak in v4l2_m2m_register_entity [ Upstream commit 8f94b49a5b5d386c038e355bef6347298aabd211 ] The entity->name (i.e. name) is allocated in v4l2_m2m_register_entity but isn't freed in its following error-handling paths. This patch adds such deallocation to prevent memleak of entity->name. Fixes: be2fff656322 ("media: add helpers for memory-to-memory media controller") Signed-off-by: Zhipeng Lu <alexious@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c index d56837c04a81a..b374c9fab4b9e 100644 --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c @@ -799,11 +799,17 @@ static int v4l2_m2m_register_entity(struct media_device *mdev, entity->function = function; ret = media_entity_pads_init(entity, num_pads, pads); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + kfree(entity->name); + entity->name = NULL; return ret; + } ret = media_device_register_entity(mdev, entity); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + kfree(entity->name); + entity->name = NULL; return ret; + } return 0; }