From: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
To: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@kernel.org>,
Dafna Hirschfeld <dafna.hirschfeld@collabora.com>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] media: vimc: fix reference leak on failed device registration
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:45:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260415154537.3451732-1-lgs201920130244@gmail.com> (raw)
When platform_device_register() fails in vimc_init(), the embedded
struct device in vimc_pdev has already been initialized by
device_initialize(), but the failure path returns the error without
dropping the device reference for the current platform device:
vimc_init()
-> platform_device_register(&vimc_pdev)
-> device_initialize(&vimc_pdev.dev)
-> setup_pdev_dma_masks(&vimc_pdev)
-> platform_device_add(&vimc_pdev)
This leads to a reference leak when platform_device_register() fails.
Fix this by calling platform_device_put() before returning the error.
The issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and
confirmed by manual review.
Fixes: 4babf057c143f ("media: vimc: allocate vimc_device dynamically")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
---
drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-core.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-core.c b/drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-core.c
index 15167e127461..fee0c7a09c4f 100644
--- a/drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-core.c
+++ b/drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-core.c
@@ -421,6 +421,7 @@ static int __init vimc_init(void)
if (ret) {
dev_err(&vimc_pdev.dev,
"platform device registration failed (err=%d)\n", ret);
+ platform_device_put(&vimc_pdev);
return ret;
}
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-15 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-15 15:45 Guangshuo Li [this message]
2026-04-15 16:01 ` [PATCH] media: vimc: fix reference leak on failed device registration Shuah Khan
2026-04-15 16:56 ` Guangshuo Li
2026-04-15 20:49 ` Shuah Khan
2026-04-16 9:11 ` Guangshuo Li
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