From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: cx231xx: fix devres lifetime
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:08:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026032742-sublet-wolverine-e88d@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260327104355.1310012-1-johan@kernel.org>
On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 11:43:55AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> USB drivers bind to USB interfaces and any device managed resources
> should have their lifetime tied to the interface rather than parent USB
> device. This avoids issues like memory leaks when drivers are unbound
> without their devices being physically disconnected (e.g. on probe
> deferral or configuration changes).
>
> Fix the driver state lifetime so that it is released on driver unbind.
Wow, I bet we have a lot of these now, did you find this with a script
or something that you can run over the whole tree?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-27 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-27 10:43 [PATCH] media: cx231xx: fix devres lifetime Johan Hovold
2026-03-27 11:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2026-03-27 11:27 ` Johan Hovold
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