This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bt8xx: fix memory leak to the 3.18-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-3.18 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 10:42:09 CET 2017 From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:38:01 +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-3.18/bt8xx-fix-memory-leak.patch