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
>
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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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2026-04-06 22:14 [PATCH v2] media: cedrus: Fix missing cleanup in error path Andrey Skvortsov
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