From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:59082 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751213Ab0EEF7G (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 01:59:06 -0400 Received: by fxm10 with SMTP id 10so3900022fxm.19 for ; Tue, 04 May 2010 22:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 07:58:57 +0200 From: Dan Carpenter To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: [patch -next] media/mem2mem: dereferencing free memory Message-ID: <20100505055857.GD27064@bicker> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: We dereferenced "ctx" on the error path. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/media/video/mem2mem_testdev.c b/drivers/media/video/mem2mem_testdev.c index baf211b..b161d26 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/mem2mem_testdev.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/mem2mem_testdev.c @@ -871,8 +871,10 @@ static int m2mtest_open(struct file *file) ctx->m2m_ctx = v4l2_m2m_ctx_init(ctx, dev->m2m_dev, queue_init); if (IS_ERR(ctx->m2m_ctx)) { + int ret = PTR_ERR(ctx->m2m_ctx); + kfree(ctx); - return PTR_ERR(ctx->m2m_ctx); + return ret; } atomic_inc(&dev->num_inst);