[PATCH 6.18 514/752] media: i2c/tw9903: Fix potential memory leak in tw9903_probe()

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T17:55:27Z

From: Abdun Nihaal <nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in>

[ Upstream commit 9cea16fea47e5553f51d10957677ff735b1eff03 ]

In one of the error paths in tw9903_probe(), the memory allocated in
v4l2_ctrl_handler_init() and v4l2_ctrl_new_std() is not freed. Fix that
by calling v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() on the handler in that error path.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0890ec19c65d ("[media] tw9903: add new tw9903 video decoder")
Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal <nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/media/i2c/tw9903.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/tw9903.c b/drivers/media/i2c/tw9903.c
index b996a05e56f28..c3eafd5d5dc82 100644
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/tw9903.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/tw9903.c
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ static int tw9903_probe(struct i2c_client *client)

if (write_regs(sd, initial_registers) < 0) {
v4l2_err(client, "error initializing TW9903\n");
+ v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(hdl);
return -EINVAL;
}

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2.51.0