[ldv-project] [PATCH] [media] gspca: fix dev_open() error path

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Tue Aug 20 16:20:20 MSK 2013


Hi,

Thanks for the patch I've added this to my "gspca" tree, and this
will be included in my next pull-request to Mauro for 3.12

Regards,

Hans

On 08/05/2013 10:16 PM, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> If v4l2_fh_open() fails in dev_open(), gspca_dev->module left locked.
> The patch adds module_put(gspca_dev->module) on this path.
>
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov<khoroshilov at ispras.ru>
> ---
>   drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c | 6 +++++-
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c b/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
> index b7ae872..048507b 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
> @@ -1266,6 +1266,7 @@ static void gspca_release(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_device)
>   static int dev_open(struct file *file)
>   {
>   	struct gspca_dev *gspca_dev = video_drvdata(file);
> +	int ret;
>
>   	PDEBUG(D_STREAM, "[%s] open", current->comm);
>
> @@ -1273,7 +1274,10 @@ static int dev_open(struct file *file)
>   	if (!try_module_get(gspca_dev->module))
>   		return -ENODEV;
>
> -	return v4l2_fh_open(file);
> +	ret = v4l2_fh_open(file);
> +	if (ret)
> +		module_put(gspca_dev->module);
> +	return ret;
>   }
>
>   static int dev_close(struct file *file)
> -- 1.8.1.2
>



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