This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: hdpvr: Fix an error handling path in hdpvr_probe() to the 4.14-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-hdpvr-fix-an-error-handling-path-in-hdpvr_probe.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c0f71bbb810237a38734607ca4599632f7f5d47f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:07:06 -0400 Subject: media: hdpvr: Fix an error handling path in hdpvr_probe() From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx> commit c0f71bbb810237a38734607ca4599632f7f5d47f upstream. Here, hdpvr_register_videodev() is responsible for setup and register a video device. Also defining and initializing a worker. hdpvr_register_videodev() is calling by hdpvr_probe at last. So no need to flush any work here. Unregister v4l2, free buffers and memory. If hdpvr_probe() will fail. Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c | 26 +++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static int hdpvr_probe(struct usb_interf /* register v4l2_device early so it can be used for printks */ if (v4l2_device_register(&interface->dev, &dev->v4l2_dev)) { dev_err(&interface->dev, "v4l2_device_register failed\n"); - goto error; + goto error_free_dev; } mutex_init(&dev->io_mutex); @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static int hdpvr_probe(struct usb_interf dev->usbc_buf = kmalloc(64, GFP_KERNEL); if (!dev->usbc_buf) { v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "Out of memory\n"); - goto error; + goto error_v4l2_unregister; } init_waitqueue_head(&dev->wait_buffer); @@ -339,13 +339,13 @@ static int hdpvr_probe(struct usb_interf } if (!dev->bulk_in_endpointAddr) { v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "Could not find bulk-in endpoint\n"); - goto error; + goto error_put_usb; } /* init the device */ if (hdpvr_device_init(dev)) { v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "device init failed\n"); - goto error; + goto error_put_usb; } mutex_lock(&dev->io_mutex); @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static int hdpvr_probe(struct usb_interf mutex_unlock(&dev->io_mutex); v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "allocating transfer buffers failed\n"); - goto error; + goto error_put_usb; } mutex_unlock(&dev->io_mutex); @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static int hdpvr_probe(struct usb_interf retval = hdpvr_register_i2c_adapter(dev); if (retval < 0) { v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "i2c adapter register failed\n"); - goto error; + goto error_free_buffers; } client = hdpvr_register_ir_rx_i2c(dev); @@ -394,13 +394,17 @@ static int hdpvr_probe(struct usb_interf reg_fail: #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_I2C) i2c_del_adapter(&dev->i2c_adapter); +error_free_buffers: #endif + hdpvr_free_buffers(dev); +error_put_usb: + usb_put_dev(dev->udev); + kfree(dev->usbc_buf); +error_v4l2_unregister: + v4l2_device_unregister(&dev->v4l2_dev); +error_free_dev: + kfree(dev); error: - if (dev) { - flush_work(&dev->worker); - /* this frees allocated memory */ - hdpvr_delete(dev); - } return retval; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/media-hdpvr-fix-an-error-handling-path-in-hdpvr_probe.patch