[PATCH] media: cedrus: fix memory leak in cedrus_init_ctrls()

Dan Carpenter error27 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 04:50:32 PDT 2026


On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 04:59:20PM +0800, Dawei Feng wrote:
> In cedrus_init_ctrls(), the V4L2 control handler is initialized before
> allocating memory for ctx->ctrls. If this allocation fails, the function
> returns -ENOMEM without freeing the previously allocated handler
> resources, leading to a memory leak.
> 
> Fix this by calling v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() on the ctx->ctrls allocation
> failure path.
> 
> The bug was first flagged by an experimental analysis tool we are
> developing for kernel memory-management bugs while analyzing
> v6.13-rc1. The tool is still under development and is not yet publicly
> available. Manual inspection confirms that the bug is still
> present in v7.1.1.
> 
> An x86_64 allyesconfig build showed no new warnings. As we do not have an
> Allwinner SoC or board with a Cedrus VPU available to test with, no
> runtime testing was able to be performed.
> 
> Fixes: 50e761516f2b ("media: platform: Add Cedrus VPU decoder driver")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Dawei Feng <dawei.feng at seu.edu.cn>
> ---

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <error27 at gmail.com>

regards,
dan carpenter




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