This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ASoC: pcm: free path list before exiting from error conditions to the 3.10-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: asoc-pcm-free-path-list-before-exiting-from-error-conditions.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e4ad1accb28d0ed8cea6f12395d58686ad344ca7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Lai <plai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 11:52:57 -0800 Subject: ASoC: pcm: free path list before exiting from error conditions From: Patrick Lai <plai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit e4ad1accb28d0ed8cea6f12395d58686ad344ca7 upstream. dpcm_path_get() allocates dynamic memory to hold path list. Corresponding dpcm_path_put() must be called to free the memory. dpcm_path_put() is not called under several error conditions. This leads to memory leak. Signed-off-by: Patrick Lai <plai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/soc-pcm.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c @@ -1864,6 +1864,7 @@ int soc_dpcm_runtime_update(struct snd_s paths = dpcm_path_get(fe, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, &list); if (paths < 0) { + dpcm_path_put(&list); dev_warn(fe->dev, "ASoC: %s no valid %s path\n", fe->dai_link->name, "playback"); mutex_unlock(&card->mutex); @@ -1893,6 +1894,7 @@ capture: paths = dpcm_path_get(fe, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE, &list); if (paths < 0) { + dpcm_path_put(&list); dev_warn(fe->dev, "ASoC: %s no valid %s path\n", fe->dai_link->name, "capture"); mutex_unlock(&card->mutex); @@ -1957,6 +1959,7 @@ static int dpcm_fe_dai_open(struct snd_p fe->dpcm[stream].runtime = fe_substream->runtime; if (dpcm_path_get(fe, stream, &list) <= 0) { + dpcm_path_put(&list); dev_dbg(fe->dev, "ASoC: %s no valid %s route\n", fe->dai_link->name, stream ? "capture" : "playback"); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from plai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/asoc-pcm-free-path-list-before-exiting-from-error-conditions.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html