From ce344631dc13717314184ebd47f5e8b0ff3cfcab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Scheller Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 11:43:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] media: dvb-core: always call invoke_release() in fe_free() commit 62229de19ff2b7f3e0ebf4d48ad99061127d0281 upstream. Follow-up to: ead666000a5f ("media: dvb_frontend: only use kref after initialized") The aforementioned commit fixed refcount OOPSes when demod driver attaching succeeded but tuner driver didn't. However, the use count of the attached demod drivers don't go back to zero and thus couldn't be cleanly unloaded. Improve on this by calling dvb_frontend_invoke_release() in __dvb_frontend_free() regardless of fepriv being NULL, instead of returning when fepriv is NULL. This is safe to do since _invoke_release() will check for passed pointers being valid before calling the .release() function. [mchehab@s-opensource.com: changed the logic a little bit to reduce conflicts with another bug fix patch under review] Fixes: ead666000a5f ("media: dvb_frontend: only use kref after initialized") Signed-off-by: Daniel Scheller Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c index 9139d01ba7ed..0a8234846699 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c @@ -145,13 +145,14 @@ static void __dvb_frontend_free(struct dvb_frontend *fe) { struct dvb_frontend_private *fepriv = fe->frontend_priv; - if (!fepriv) - return; - - dvb_free_device(fepriv->dvbdev); + if (fepriv) + dvb_free_device(fepriv->dvbdev); dvb_frontend_invoke_release(fe, fe->ops.release); + if (!fepriv) + return; + kfree(fepriv); fe->frontend_priv = NULL; } -- 2.20.1