Commit bf65f8aa authored Sep 24, 2020 by Oliver Neukum Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab Oct 08, 2020

media: usbtv: Fix refcounting mixup



The premature free in the error path is blocked by V4L
refcounting, not USB refcounting. Thanks to
Ben Hutchings for review.

[v2] corrected attributions

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Fixes: 50e70445 ("media: usbtv: prevent double free in error case")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

parent 0cef13d8

drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ static int usbtv_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,

		usbtv_audio_fail:
		/* we must not free at this point */
		usb_get_dev(usbtv->udev);
		v4l2_device_get(&usbtv->v4l2_dev);
		/* this will undo the v4l2_device_get() */
		usbtv_video_free(usbtv);

		usbtv_video_fail:

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