[PATCH] media: stm32: dcmi: fix some error handling bugs in probe()

Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:12:29 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.janitors,gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure,gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
There are a few issues here:

1) After we assign:
        chan = dma_request_chan(&pdev->dev, "tx");
   Then the error paths need to clean up before returning.  The first
   error path does a direct return.
2) The error paths check "dcmi->mdma_chan" but that is not assigned
   until later so it results in memory leaks.  Test "mdma_chan"
   instead.
3) The error handling calls dma_release_channel(dcmi->dma_chan) before
   "dcmi->dma_chan" has been assigned which leads to a NULL pointer
   dereference.  Use the "chan" variable instead.

I also moved the call to dma_release_channel() after the call to
dma_release_channel() so it mirrors the allocation code better.

Fixes: bc901885fae0 ("media: stm32: dcmi: perform dmaengine_slave_config at probe")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
---
From static analysis.  Untested.

 drivers/media/platform/st/stm32/stm32-dcmi.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/st/stm32/stm32-dcmi.c b/drivers/media/platform/st/stm32/stm32-dcmi.c
index eeb0199864dd..c9f08b2465be 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/st/stm32/stm32-dcmi.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/st/stm32/stm32-dcmi.c
@@ -2024,8 +2024,10 @@ static int dcmi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	mdma_chan = dma_request_chan(&pdev->dev, "mdma_tx");
 	if (IS_ERR(mdma_chan)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(mdma_chan);
-		if (ret != -ENODEV)
-			return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, ret, "Failed to request MDMA channel\n");
+		if (ret != -ENODEV) {
+			dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, ret, "Failed to request MDMA channel\n");
+			goto err_release_chan;
+		}
 		mdma_chan = NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -2206,12 +2208,13 @@ static int dcmi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 err_media_device_cleanup:
 	media_device_cleanup(&dcmi->mdev);
 err_mdma_slave_config:
-	if (dcmi->mdma_chan)
+	if (mdma_chan)
 		gen_pool_free(dcmi->sram_pool, (unsigned long)dcmi->sram_buf, dcmi->sram_buf_size);
 err_dma_slave_config:
-	dma_release_channel(dcmi->dma_chan);
-	if (dcmi->mdma_chan)
+	if (mdma_chan)
 		dma_release_channel(mdma_chan);
+err_release_chan:
+	dma_release_channel(chan);
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.53.0