[PATCH 2/4] media: bdisp: fix memleak on release

Johan Hovold johan at kernel.org
Thu Oct 10 13:13:31 UTC 2019


If a process is interrupted while accessing the video device and the
device lock is contended, release() could return early and fail to free
related resources.

Note that the return value of the v4l2 release file operation is
ignored.

Fixes: 28ffeebbb7bd ("[media] bdisp: 2D blitter driver using v4l2 mem2mem framework")
Cc: stable <stable at vger.kernel.org>     # 4.2
Cc: Fabien Dessenne <fabien.dessenne at st.com>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil at cisco.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c b/drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c
index e90f1ba30574..675b5f2b4c2e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-v4l2.c
@@ -651,8 +651,7 @@ static int bdisp_release(struct file *file)
 
 	dev_dbg(bdisp->dev, "%s\n", __func__);
 
-	if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&bdisp->lock))
-		return -ERESTARTSYS;
+	mutex_lock(&bdisp->lock);
 
 	v4l2_m2m_ctx_release(ctx->fh.m2m_ctx);
 
-- 
2.23.0



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