From 8314375b8f9447e74221ad2116121ca40cbfc1bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francesco Lavra Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:47:11 -0300 Subject: V4L/DVB (13961): em28xx-dvb: fix memleak in dvb_fini() commit 19f48cb105b7fa18d0dcab435919a3a29b7a7c4c upstream. this patch fixes a memory leak which occurs when an em28xx card with DVB extension is unplugged or its DVB extension driver is unloaded. In dvb_fini(), dev->dvb must be freed before being set to NULL, as is done in dvb_init() in case of error. Note that this bug is also present in the latest stable kernel release. Signed-off-by: Francesco Lavra Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'drivers') diff --git a/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c b/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c index d2b1a1a52689..72894f408517 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c @@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ static int dvb_fini(struct em28xx *dev) if (dev->dvb) { unregister_dvb(dev->dvb); + kfree(dev->dvb); dev->dvb = NULL; } -- cgit v1.2.3