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 failure to clean up hardware on probe failure
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 15:10:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adelUpXGbXH17VQ_@shepard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260406221440.3721863-1-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>
>
> If V4L2 device fails to register, then SRAM still be claimed and as a
> result driver will not be able to probe again.
>
> cedrus 1c0e000.video-codec: Failed to claim SRAM
> cedrus 1c0e000.video-codec: Failed to probe hardware
> cedrus 1c0e000.video-codec: probe with driver cedrus failed with error -16
>
> cedrus_hw_remove undoes everything that was previously done by
> cedrus_hw_probe, such as disabling runtime power management and
> releasing the claimed SRAM and reserved memory region.
Good catch, thanks for the patch!
Acked-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paulk@sys-base.io>
Note that I (still) plan to rework the architecture of this driver in the
future but such fixes are definitely welcome in the meantime.
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 more technical details to commit message
>
> drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> index 1d2130f35fffc..ee0e286add67d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ static int cedrus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> ret = v4l2_device_register(&pdev->dev, &dev->v4l2_dev);
> if (ret) {
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to register V4L2 device\n");
> - return ret;
> + goto err_hw;
> }
>
> vfd = &dev->vfd;
> @@ -538,6 +538,8 @@ static int cedrus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> v4l2_m2m_release(dev->m2m_dev);
> err_v4l2:
> v4l2_device_unregister(&dev->v4l2_dev);
> +err_hw:
> + cedrus_hw_remove(dev);
>
> return ret;
> }
> --
> 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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2026-04-06 22:14 [PATCH v2] media: cedrus: Fix failure to clean up hardware on probe failure Andrey Skvortsov
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