Patch "[media] gs1662: drop kfree for memory allocated with devm_kzalloc" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
[media] gs1662: drop kfree for memory allocated with devm_kzalloc
to the 4.9-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:
gs1662-drop-kfree-for-memory-allocated-with-devm_kzalloc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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df94121f02ecce435d6b5277071eb94b764caa89Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:09:39 -0300
Subject: [media] gs1662: drop kfree for memory allocated with devm_kzalloc
From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
commit df94121f02ecce435d6b5277071eb94b764caa89 upstream.
It's not necessary to free memory allocated with devm_kzalloc and using kfree leads to a double free.
--- drivers/media/spi/gs1662.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/media/spi/gs1662.c +1 -2
@@ -453,10 +453,9 @@ static int gs_probe(struct spi_device *sstatic int gs_remove (struct spi_device *spi) {struct v4l2_subdev *sd =spi_get_drvdata (spi); -struct gs *gs =to_gs (sd);v4l2_device_unregister_subdev (sd); -kfree (gs); +return 0 ; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.9/soc-ti-wkup_m3_ipc-fix-error-return-code-in-wkup_m3_ipc_probe.patch queue-4.9/gs1662-drop-kfree-for-memory-allocated-with-devm_kzalloc.patch