[PATCH] media: staging/ipu7: fix async notifier leak on init error

From: Cong Nguyen

Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 07:26:51 EST


isys_notifier_init() initialises a v4l2 async notifier and then, for
each CSI-2 port, adds a remote sensor subdev to the notifier's
waiting_list via v4l2_async_nf_add_fwnode_remote(), which allocates a
sensor_async_sd descriptor and takes a fwnode reference.

If parsing or adding a later port fails, the code jumps to the
"err_parse" label, which only drops the current endpoint fwnode
reference and returns, without calling v4l2_async_nf_cleanup(). Any
descriptors already added to the notifier for earlier ports are
therefore leaked, and the caller's error path does not clean up the
notifier either.

Call v4l2_async_nf_cleanup() on the error path, matching the cleanup
already performed when v4l2_async_nf_register() fails. This is safe as
the notifier is always initialised before the loop is entered.

Fixes: a516d36bdc3d ("media: staging/ipu7: add IPU7 input system device driver")
Signed-off-by: Cong Nguyen <congnt264@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/media/ipu7/ipu7-isys.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/ipu7/ipu7-isys.c b/drivers/staging/media/ipu7/ipu7-isys.c
index cb2f49f3e0fa..c626de051898 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/ipu7/ipu7-isys.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/ipu7/ipu7-isys.c
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ static int isys_notifier_init(struct ipu7_isys *isys)

err_parse:
fwnode_handle_put(ep);
+ v4l2_async_nf_cleanup(&isys->notifier);
return ret;
}

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