This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

media: dvb-core: always call invoke_release() in fe_free()

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: media-dvb-core-always-call-invoke_release-in-fe_free.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 62229de19ff2b7f3e0ebf4d48ad99061127d0281 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Daniel Scheller d.scheller@gmx.net Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 11:43:22 -0400 Subject: media: dvb-core: always call invoke_release() in fe_free()

From: Daniel Scheller d.scheller@gmx.net

commit 62229de19ff2b7f3e0ebf4d48ad99061127d0281 upstream.

Follow-up to: ead666000a5f ("media: dvb_frontend: only use kref after initialized")

The aforementioned commit fixed refcount OOPSes when demod driver attaching succeeded but tuner driver didn't. However, the use count of the attached demod drivers don't go back to zero and thus couldn't be cleanly unloaded. Improve on this by calling dvb_frontend_invoke_release() in __dvb_frontend_free() regardless of fepriv being NULL, instead of returning when fepriv is NULL. This is safe to do since _invoke_release() will check for passed pointers being valid before calling the .release() function.

[mchehab@s-opensource.com: changed the logic a little bit to reduce conflicts with another bug fix patch under review] Fixes: ead666000a5f ("media: dvb_frontend: only use kref after initialized") Signed-off-by: Daniel Scheller d.scheller@gmx.net Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@s-opensource.com Cc: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c @@ -145,13 +145,14 @@ static void __dvb_frontend_free(struct d { struct dvb_frontend_private *fepriv = fe->frontend_priv;

- if (!fepriv) - return; - - dvb_free_device(fepriv->dvbdev); + if (fepriv) + dvb_free_device(fepriv->dvbdev);

dvb_frontend_invoke_release(fe, fe->ops.release);

+ if (!fepriv) + return; + kfree(fepriv); fe->frontend_priv = NULL; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from d.scheller@gmx.net are

queue-4.14/media-dvb-core-always-call-invoke_release-in-fe_free.patch