From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: minghsiu.tsai@mediatek.com (Minghsiu Tsai) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 20:47:25 +0800 Subject: [PATCH next 1/2] media: mtk-mdp: fix video_device_release argument In-Reply-To: References: <1473340146-6598-4-git-send-email-minghsiu.tsai@mediatek.com> <20161027202325.20680-1-vincent.stehle@laposte.net> <20161028075253.gdy2bbugih6oqncw@romuald.bergerie> Message-ID: <1478522845.4269.3.camel@mtksdaap41> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, 2016-11-03 at 13:47 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > On 28/10/16 09:52, Vincent Stehl? wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:23:24PM +0200, Vincent Stehl? wrote: > >> video_device_release() takes a pointer to struct video_device as argument. > >> Fix two call sites where the address of the pointer is passed instead. > > > > Sorry, I messed up: please ignore that "fix". The 0day robot made me > > realize this is indeed not a proper fix. > > > > The issue remains, though: we cannot call video_device_release() on the > > vdev structure member, as this will in turn call kfree(). Most probably, > > vdev needs to be dynamically allocated, or the call to > > video_device_release() dropped completely. > > I prefer that vdev is dynamically allocated. There are known problems with > embedded video_device structs, so allocating it is preferred. > > Minghsiu, can you do that? > Hi Hans, I just send the patch for this. https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9415007/ > Regards, > > Hans > > > > > Sorry for the bad patch. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Vincent. > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > > the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >