Patch "bt8xx: fix memory leak" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "bt8xx: fix memory leak" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    bt8xx: fix memory leak

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     bt8xx-fix-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Nov  6 10:07:36 CET 2017
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:36:57 +0000
Subject: bt8xx: fix memory leak

From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>


[ Upstream commit 6792eb0cf9310ec240b7e7c9bfa86dff4c758c68 ]

If dvb_attach() fails then we were just printing an error message and
exiting but the memory allocated to state was not released.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
@@ -680,6 +680,7 @@ static void frontend_init(struct dvb_bt8
 		/*	DST is not a frontend, attaching the ASIC	*/
 		if (dvb_attach(dst_attach, state, &card->dvb_adapter) == NULL) {
 			pr_err("%s: Could not find a Twinhan DST\n", __func__);
+			kfree(state);
 			break;
 		}
 		/*	Attach other DST peripherals if any		*/


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/bt8xx-fix-memory-leak.patch