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media: chips-media: wave5: Fix memory leak on codec_info allocation failure
authorZilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:57:06 +0000 (14:57 +0000)
committerHans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Mon, 5 Jan 2026 14:56:31 +0000 (15:56 +0100)
commita519e21e32398459ba357e67b541402f7295ee1b
tree8b02bd44878aa645bc45caa5972494e97fae6dea
parenta176ac5e701f1ba30843c0d7e0663a761bf9a61a
media: chips-media: wave5: Fix memory leak on codec_info allocation failure

In wave5_vpu_open_enc() and wave5_vpu_open_dec(), a vpu instance is
allocated via kzalloc(). If the subsequent allocation for inst->codec_info
fails, the functions return -ENOMEM without freeing the previously
allocated instance, causing a memory leak.

Fix this by calling kfree() on the instance in this error path to ensure
it is properly released.

Fixes: 9707a6254a8a6 ("media: chips-media: wave5: Add the v4l2 layer")
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-vpu-dec.c
drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-vpu-enc.c