[PATCH] media: vpif_capture: Fix i2c adapter reference leak in vpif_probe()

From: Wentao Liang

Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 06:16:25 EST


vpif_probe() takes a reference to the i2c adapter with
i2c_get_adapter() and passes it to v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_board(),
which does not consume it, but the reference is never released, so
it is leaked both when the probe succeeds and when it fails after
the adapter has been acquired.

Release the reference with i2c_put_adapter() on the success path
and in the probe_subdev_out cleanup, and initialise i2c_adap so
that the cleanup is a no-op when the adapter was never acquired.

Fixes: 6ffefff5a9e7 ("V4L/DVB (12906c): V4L : vpif capture driver for DM6467")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/platform/ti/davinci/vpif_capture.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/ti/davinci/vpif_capture.c b/drivers/media/platform/ti/davinci/vpif_capture.c
index 15df3ea2f77e..572fea499b71 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/ti/davinci/vpif_capture.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/ti/davinci/vpif_capture.c
@@ -1602,7 +1602,7 @@ vpif_capture_get_pdata(struct platform_device *pdev,
static int vpif_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct vpif_subdev_info *subdevdata;
- struct i2c_adapter *i2c_adap;
+ struct i2c_adapter *i2c_adap = NULL;
int subdev_count;
int res_idx = 0;
int i, err;
@@ -1692,9 +1692,12 @@ static int vpif_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
}
}

+ i2c_put_adapter(i2c_adap);
+
return 0;

probe_subdev_out:
+ i2c_put_adapter(i2c_adap);
v4l2_async_nf_cleanup(&vpif_obj.notifier);
/* free sub devices memory */
kfree(vpif_obj.sd);
--
2.34.1