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media: vimc: fix reference leak on failed device registration
authorGuangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:45:37 +0000 (23:45 +0800)
committerHans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Tue, 5 May 2026 14:57:02 +0000 (16:57 +0200)
commit33e2b833c66b890a0d71c4fa82d4c97143f7f75f
tree9316a43fdfd3294f678a0ceb057d2d31fb7d10d5
parent9aa21e1549db8882ff77b691e7714153df21dff0
media: vimc: fix reference leak on failed device registration

When platform_device_register() fails in vimc_init(), the embedded
struct device in vimc_pdev has already been initialized by
device_initialize(), but the failure path returns the error without
dropping the device reference for the current platform device:

  vimc_init()
    -> platform_device_register(&vimc_pdev)
       -> device_initialize(&vimc_pdev.dev)
       -> setup_pdev_dma_masks(&vimc_pdev)
       -> platform_device_add(&vimc_pdev)

This leads to a reference leak when platform_device_register() fails.
Fix this by calling platform_device_put() before returning the error.

The issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and
confirmed by manual review.

Fixes: 4babf057c143f ("media: vimc: allocate vimc_device dynamically")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-core.c