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V4L/DVB (13961): em28xx-dvb: fix memleak in dvb_fini()
authorFrancesco Lavra <francescolavra@interfree.it>
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:47:11 +0000 (08:47 -0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 22:52:27 +0000 (15:52 -0700)
commit8314375b8f9447e74221ad2116121ca40cbfc1bb
tree81b05908e5229e8473483d0c1b250fa72b1e6d90
parent9776e39de376c2dd759f1d8d7f568111139b330e
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 <francescolavra@interfree.it>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c