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Date:   Thu, 5 Dec 2019 17:06:11 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Maxime Jourdan <mjourdan@...libre.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: meson: add missing allocation failure check on
 new_buf

On (19/12/04 14:11), Colin King wrote:
[..]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c
> index 0a1a04fd5d13..8dd1396909d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c
> @@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ vdec_queue_recycle(struct amvdec_session *sess, struct vb2_buffer *vb)
>  	struct amvdec_buffer *new_buf;
>
>  	new_buf = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_buf), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!new_buf)
> +		return;
>  	new_buf->vb = vb;

So the buffer is not getting recycled? IOW is leaked?

	-ss