Patch "media: dvb-core: always call invoke_release() in fe_free()" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

media: dvb-core: always call invoke_release() in fe_free()

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-dvb-core-always-call-invoke_release-in-fe_free.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Daniel Scheller <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 11:43:22 -0400
Subject: media: dvb-core: always call invoke_release() in fe_free()

From: Daniel Scheller <[email protected]>

commit 62229de19ff2b7f3e0ebf4d48ad99061127d0281 upstream.

Follow-up to: ead666000a5f ("media: dvb_frontend: only use kref after initialized")

The aforementioned commit fixed refcount OOPSes when demod driver attaching succeeded but tuner driver didn't. However, the use count of the attached demod drivers don't go back to zero and thus couldn't be cleanly unloaded. Improve on this by calling dvb_frontend_invoke_release() in __dvb_frontend_free() regardless of fepriv being NULL, instead of returning when fepriv is NULL. This is safe to do since _invoke_release() will check for passed pointers being valid before calling the .release() function.

[[email protected]: changed the logic a little bit to reduce
conflicts with another bug fix patch under review]

---
 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

@@ -145,13 +145,14 @@ static void __dvb_frontend_free(struct d
 {
 	struct dvb_frontend_private *fepriv = fe->frontend_priv;
 
-	if (!fepriv)
-		return;
-
-	dvb_free_device(fepriv->dvbdev);
+	if (fepriv)
+		dvb_free_device(fepriv->dvbdev);
 
 	dvb_frontend_invoke_release(fe, fe->ops.release);
 
+	if (!fepriv)
+		return;
+
 	kfree(fepriv);
 	fe->frontend_priv = NULL;
 }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/media-dvb-core-always-call-invoke_release-in-fe_free.patch