Hi Hans,
Thank you for the patch.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 03:21:45PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Ensure that this pointer is set to NULL after it is freed.
> The vimc driver has a static media_entity and after
> unbinding and rebinding the vimc device the media code will
> try to free this pointer again since it wasn't set to NULL.
As this fixes a problem in vimc, should you add a Fixes: tag ? To avoid
other similar problems, I think the vimc driver should allocate the
media_device and other device data dynamically at probe time. Bundling
them with the platform_device in struct vimc_device isn't a good idea.
> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-ci...@xs4all.nl>
> ---
> drivers/media/media-entity.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/media-entity.c b/drivers/media/media-entity.c
> index 0b1cb3559140..7b2a2cc95530 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/media-entity.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/media-entity.c
> @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__media_entity_enum_init);
> void media_entity_enum_cleanup(struct media_entity_enum *ent_enum)
> {
> kfree(ent_enum->bmap);
> + ent_enum->bmap = NULL;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(media_entity_enum_cleanup);
>
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
