From: Tuo Li <islituo@gmail.com>
To: mchehab@kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tuo Li <islituo@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] media: dvb-bt8xx: Fix potential double-free in frontend_init
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 17:03:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110090343.1245744-1-islituo@gmail.com> (raw)
The caller in dvb-bt8xx.c (frontend_init) already frees the allocated
dst_state when dvb_attach(dst_attach, ...) returns NULL:
if (dvb_attach(dst_attach, state, &card->dvb_adapter) == NULL) {
pr_err("%s: Could not find a Twinhan DST\n", __func__);
kfree(state);
break;
}
Remove the redundant kfree() calls from dst_attach() to avoid
double-freeing the state on failure paths. This keeps ownership with the
caller until a successful attachment transfers it to the frontend.
Signed-off-by: Tuo Li <islituo@gmail.com>
---
drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst.c b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst.c
index 110651e47831..5cdf8a77260c 100644
--- a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst.c
@@ -1694,7 +1694,6 @@ struct dst_state *dst_attach(struct dst_state *state, struct dvb_adapter *dvb_ad
{
/* check if the ASIC is there */
if (dst_probe(state) < 0) {
- kfree(state);
return NULL;
}
/* determine settings based on type */
@@ -1714,7 +1713,6 @@ struct dst_state *dst_attach(struct dst_state *state, struct dvb_adapter *dvb_ad
break;
default:
pr_err("unknown DST type. please report to the LinuxTV.org DVB mailinglist.\n");
- kfree(state);
return NULL;
}
state->frontend.demodulator_priv = state;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 9:04 UTC|newest]
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2026-11-10 9:03 Tuo Li [this message]
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