[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "ARM: imx: fix error handling in ipu device registration" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ARM: imx: fix error handling in ipu device registration

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.25.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Emil Goode <emilgoode at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 15:07:54 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 46/66] ARM: imx: fix error handling in ipu device registration
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commit d1d70e5dc2cfa9047bb935c41ba808ebb8135696 upstream.

If we fail to allocate struct platform_device pdev we
dereference it after the goto label err.

This bug was found using coccinelle.

Fixes: afa77ef (ARM: mx3: dynamically allocate "ipu-core" devices)
Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
index fc4dd7c..6bd7c3f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/devices/platform-ipu-core.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ struct platform_device *__init imx_alloc_mx3_camera(

 	pdev = platform_device_alloc("mx3-camera", 0);
 	if (!pdev)
-		goto err;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

 	pdev->dev.dma_mask = kmalloc(sizeof(*pdev->dev.dma_mask), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pdev->dev.dma_mask)
--
1.9.1