Patch "bt8xx: fix memory leak" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bt8xx: fix memory leak
to the 4.4-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:
bt8xx-fix-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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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From foo@baz Mon Nov 6 10:22:56 CET 2017
From: Sudip Mukherjee <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:37:49 +0000
Subject: bt8xx: fix memory leak
From: Sudip Mukherjee <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 6792eb0cf9310ec240b7e7c9bfa86dff4c758c68 ]
If dvb_attach() fails then we were just printing an error message and exiting but the memory allocated to state was not released.
--- drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c +1 -0
@@ -680,6 +680,7 @@ static void frontend_init(struct dvb_bt8/* DST is not a frontend, attaching the ASIC */ if (dvb_attach (dst_attach, state, &card->dvb_adapter) ==NULL ) {pr_err ("%s: Could not find a Twinhan DST\n" , __func__); +kfree (state);break ; }/* Attach other DST peripherals if any */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.4/bt8xx-fix-memory-leak.patch