From: Francesco Lavra Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:47:11 +0000 (-0300) Subject: V4L/DVB (13961): em28xx-dvb: fix memleak in dvb_fini() X-Git-Tag: v2.6.34-rc1~280^2~273 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=19f48cb105b7fa18d0dcab435919a3a29b7a7c4c;p=karo-tx-linux.git V4L/DVB (13961): em28xx-dvb: fix memleak in dvb_fini() 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 --- diff --git a/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c b/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c index cc0505eb900f..6b0a4953ab0e 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c @@ -606,6 +606,7 @@ static int dvb_fini(struct em28xx *dev) if (dev->dvb) { unregister_dvb(dev->dvb); + kfree(dev->dvb); dev->dvb = NULL; }