[PATCH 3/5] media: sunxi: Add A10 CSI driver

Maxime Ripard
2018-11-22T13:58:53Z

Hi Sakari,

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 12:01:03AM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 09:51:06PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > Hi Hans,
> >
> > Thanks for your review! I'll address the other comments you made.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 01:24:47PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > > > +static int csi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > > > +{
> > > > + struct sun4i_csi *csi;
> > > > + struct resource *res;
> > > > + int ret;
> > > > + int irq;
> > > > +
> > > > + csi = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*csi), GFP_KERNEL);
> > >
> > > devm_kzalloc is not recommended: all devm_ memory is freed when the driver
> > > is unbound, but a filehandle might still have a reference open.
> >
> > How would a !devm variant with a kfree in the remove help? We would
> > still fall in the same case, right?
>
> Not quite. For video nodes this is handled: the release callback gets called
> once there are no file handles open to the device. That may well be much
> later than the device has been unbound from the driver.

I might be missing something, but how the release callback will be
able to get the reference to the structure we allocated here so that
it can free it?

Thanks!
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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