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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


      reply	other threads:[~2026-01-06  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-05 11:01 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: mediatek: vcodec: Fix a reference leak in" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree gregkh
2026-01-06  0:31 ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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