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Subject[81/89] V4L/DVB (13961): em28xx-dvb: fix memleak in dvb_fini()
2.6.31-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Francesco Lavra <francescolavra@interfree.it>

commit 19f48cb105b7fa18d0dcab435919a3a29b7a7c4c upstream.

this patch fixes a memory leak which occurs when an em28xx card with DVB
extension is unplugged or its DVB extension driver is unloaded. In
dvb_fini(), dev->dvb must be freed before being set to NULL, as is done
in dvb_init() in case of error.
Note that this bug is also present in the latest stable kernel release.

Signed-off-by: Francesco Lavra <francescolavra@interfree.it>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c
@@ -591,6 +591,7 @@ static int dvb_fini(struct em28xx *dev)

if (dev->dvb) {
unregister_dvb(dev->dvb);
+ kfree(dev->dvb);
dev->dvb = NULL;
}




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