media: dvb_frontend: only use kref after initialized
As reported by Laurent, when a DVB frontend need to register two drivers (e. g. a tuner and a demod), if the second driver fails to register (for example because it was not compiled), the error handling logic frees the frontend by calling dvb_frontend_detach(). That used to work fine, but changeset 1f862a68 ("[media] dvb_frontend: move kref to struct dvb_frontend") added a kref at struct dvb_frontend. So, now, instead of just freeing the data, the error handling do a kref_put(). That works fine only after dvb_register_frontend() succeeds. While it would be possible to add a helper function that would be initializing earlier the kref, that would require changing every single DVB frontend on non-trivial ways, and would make frontends different than other drivers. So, instead of doing that, let's focus on the real issue: only call kref_put() after kref_init(). That's easy to check, as, when the dvb frontend is successfuly registered, it will allocate its own private struct. So, if such struct is allocated, it means that it is safe to use kref_put(). If not, then nobody is using yet the frontend, and it is safe to just deallocate it. Fixes: 1f862a68 ("[media] dvb_frontend: move kref to struct dvb_frontend") Reported-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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