Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: chips-media: wave5: Fix memory leak on codec_info allocation failure In wave5_vpu_open_enc() and wave5_vpu_open_dec(), a vpu instance is allocated via kzalloc(). If the subsequent allocation for inst->codec_info fails, the functions return -ENOMEM without freeing the previously allocated instance, causing a memory leak. Fix this by calling kfree() on the instance in this error path to ensure it is properly released.

References 4

• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1de71556cbd6e1d0d26fb86b9b3bb8caa0df8495
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32e9e45cf7e3422d21fa64535588d3572faf71c3
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52defdd4034db1a34bb48006f889d66a3629224b
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a519e21e32398459ba357e67b541402f7295ee1b

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