This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: imx: fix error handling in ipu device registration
to the 3.14-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:
arm-imx-fix-error-handling-in-ipu-device-registration.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d1d70e5dc2cfa9047bb935c41ba808ebb8135696 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 15:07:54 +0800
Subject: ARM: imx: fix error handling in ipu device registration
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From: Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx>
commit d1d70e5dc2cfa9047bb935c41ba808ebb8135696 upstream.
If we fail to allocate struct platform_device pdev we
dereference it after the goto label err.
This bug was found using coccinelle.
Fixes: afa77ef (ARM: mx3: dynamically allocate "ipu-core" devices)
Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ struct platform_device *__init imx_alloc
pdev = platform_device_alloc("mx3-camera", 0);
if (!pdev)
- goto err;
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
pdev->dev.dma_mask = kmalloc(sizeof(*pdev->dev.dma_mask), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pdev->dev.dma_mask)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/arm-imx-fix-error-handling-in-ipu-device-registration.patch
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