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From: Paul Kocialkowski <paulk@sys-base.io>
To: Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@kernel.org>,
	Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>,
	Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@kernel.org>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] media: cedrus: Fix missing cleanup in error path
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 15:15:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ademaXe-zmEbGIUV@shepard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260406221402.3721777-1-andrej.skvortzov@gmail.com>

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Hi,

On Tue 07 Apr 26, 01:14, Andrey Skvortsov wrote:
> From: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
> 
> According to the documentation struct v4l2_fh has to be cleaned up with
> v4l2_fh_exit() before being freed. [1]
> Currently there is no actual bug here, when v4l2_fh_exit() isn't called.
> v4l2_fh_exit() in this case only destroys internal mutex. But it may
> change in the future, when v4l2_fh_init/v4l2_fh_exit will be enhanced.
> 
> 1. https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/media/v4l2-fh.html

Good catch too, thanks!

Acked-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paulk@sys-base.io>

All the best,

Paul

> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov@gmail.com>
> Fixes: 50e761516f2b ("media: platform: Add Cedrus VPU decoder driver")
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
>  - remove duplicate 'in-body' From: record
>  - add details to commit message
> 
> drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> index 6600245dff0e2..1d2130f35fffc 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> @@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ static int cedrus_open(struct file *file)
>  err_m2m_release:
>  	v4l2_m2m_ctx_release(ctx->fh.m2m_ctx);
>  err_free:
> +	v4l2_fh_exit(&ctx->fh);
>  	kfree(ctx);
>  	mutex_unlock(&dev->dev_mutex);
>  
> -- 
> 2.51.0
> 

-- 
Paul Kocialkowski,

Independent contractor - sys-base - https://www.sys-base.io/
Free software developer - https://www.paulk.fr/

Expert in multimedia, graphics and embedded hardware support with Linux.

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      reply	other threads:[~2026-04-09 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-06 22:14 [PATCH v2] media: cedrus: Fix missing cleanup in error path Andrey Skvortsov
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