This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: bcm2835-audio: double free in init error path
to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-next branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
From 649496b603000135683ee76d7ea499456617bf17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:08:54 +0300 Subject: staging: bcm2835-audio: double free in init error path
We free instance here and in the caller. It should be only the caller which handles it.
Fixes: d7ca3a71545b ("staging: bcm2835-audio: Operate non-atomic PCM ops") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c index 0db412fd7c55..c0debdbce26c 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c @@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ vc_vchi_audio_init(VCHI_INSTANCE_T vchi_instance, dev_err(instance->dev, "failed to open VCHI service connection (status=%d)\n", status); - kfree(instance); return -EPERM; }