From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Haoxiang Li <haoxiang_li2024@163.com>,
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>,
Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>,
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y] media: mediatek: vcodec: Fix a reference leak in mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu_init()
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 19:31:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260106003147.2858489-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026010524-rarity-cardboard-387f@gregkh>
From: Haoxiang Li <haoxiang_li2024@163.com>
[ Upstream commit cdd0f118ef87db8a664fb5ea366fd1766d2df1cd ]
vpu_get_plat_device() increases the reference count of the returned
platform device. However, when devm_kzalloc() fails, the reference
is not released, causing a reference leak.
Fix this by calling put_device() on fw_pdev->dev before returning
on the error path.
Fixes: e25a89f743b1 ("media: mtk-vcodec: potential dereference of null pointer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <haoxiang_li2024@163.com>
Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
[ adapted file path from common/ subdirectory and adjusted devm_kzalloc target from plat_dev->dev to dev->plat_dev->dev ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c b/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c
index 1ec29f1b163a..84efc824d267 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c
@@ -94,8 +94,10 @@ struct mtk_vcodec_fw *mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu_init(struct mtk_vcodec_dev *dev,
vpu_wdt_reg_handler(fw_pdev, mtk_vcodec_vpu_reset_handler, dev, rst_id);
fw = devm_kzalloc(&dev->plat_dev->dev, sizeof(*fw), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!fw)
+ if (!fw) {
+ put_device(&fw_pdev->dev);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ }
fw->type = VPU;
fw->ops = &mtk_vcodec_vpu_msg;
fw->pdev = fw_pdev;
--
2.51.0
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