This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bt8xx: fix memory leak
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:
bt8xx-fix-memory-leak.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.
>From foo@baz Mon Nov 6 10:07:36 CET 2017
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:36:57 +0000
Subject: bt8xx: fix memory leak
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 6792eb0cf9310ec240b7e7c9bfa86dff4c758c68 ]
If dvb_attach() fails then we were just printing an error message and
exiting but the memory allocated to state was not released.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
@@ -680,6 +680,7 @@ static void frontend_init(struct dvb_bt8
/* DST is not a frontend, attaching the ASIC */
if (dvb_attach(dst_attach, state, &card->dvb_adapter) == NULL) {
pr_err("%s: Could not find a Twinhan DST\n", __func__);
+ kfree(state);
break;
}
/* Attach other DST peripherals if any */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/bt8xx-fix-memory-leak.patch